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| Answer» <html><body><p>So, the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/problem-25530" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PROBLEM">PROBLEM</a> I am running into is that when my <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/computer-243299" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about COMPUTER">COMPUTER</a> is running for an extended period of time (can't gauge the timeframe well. Maybe an average of 7 hours of uptime), I eventually run into insane slowdown. Of <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/course-246352" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about COURSE">COURSE</a>, I'm trying to end any high tasks in Task Manager that could be sucking up this much RAM, but that doesn't seem to be the culprit. I wish I could give you the reproduction steps to what gets it in that state, but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on why this was happening, what I need to be on the lookout for, and some ways to fix it. I can't tell if I have a memory leak, a malicious program, or something else.<br/><br/>A) When the slowdown occurs, I look at my Task Manager, and sort the Processes by the Memory % descending. I see it is calculating around 99% total usage. The first lookover is that a lot of processes are not using a lot of memory, so I don't know 99% of it is being used all of a sudden.<br/>B) I basically need to power cycle my machine to return it to normal, until it happens again.<br/>C) When I open the Resource Monitor and watch the Memory Tab. Even when I idle, I see the Physical Memory in use going up<br/>D) Tried to look at some guides to see if they could address my issue:<br/>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osKnDbHibig">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osKnDbHibig</a><br/>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOaqpreXsBU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOaqpreXsBU</a><br/>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVyoxGJLFQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVyoxGJLFQ</a><br/>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAxuGjdahd0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAxuGjdahd0</a><br/>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRf-6E4LL2Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRf-6E4LL2Y</a><br/><br/>Here are my computer specs:<br/>- Windows 10 Pro 64-bit<br/>- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU 3.60GHz Processor<br/>- 32 GB RAM (between two 16GB CORSAIR DDR4 RAM sticks)<br/>- MSI PRO Z390-A PRO LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel Z390 SATA 6Gb/s ATX Intel Motherboard<br/>- MSI RTX 2060 GAMING Z 6G GeForce Graphics Card<br/>- <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/samsung-12820" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SAMSUNG">SAMSUNG</a> SSD 970 EVO 1TB<br/><br/>Here are some things I did while I was attempting to troubleshoot:<br/>1. Originally had 16 GB of RAM. Bought a new stick and replaced it to see if I had faulty RAM. It happened again, so I inserted both. That is why I now have 32 GB of RAM<br/>2. Ran a virus/malware scan with Avast antivirus, Malwarebytes, and SuperAntiSpyware. No viruses or malware was found. <br/>3. Ran a disk cleanup and fixed broken registries with CCleaner Pro<br/>4. Disabled some startup programs<br/>5. Modified the COMPUTER\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Ndu\Start registry value from 2 to 4<br/>6. Modified the COMPUTER\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\ClearPageFileAtShutdown registry value from 0 to 1<br/>7. Stopped & Disabled the SysMain service<br/>8. Running the following commands in Windows Command Prompt<br/>- Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth<br/>- Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth<br/>- Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth<br/>- <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/sfc-630509" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SFC">SFC</a> /SCANNOW<br/>9. Enabled Google Chrome hardware acceleration (it was off)<br/>10. In Google Chrome, turned off "Preload pages for faster browsing and searching"<br/>11. Updated all drivers I could with CCleaner Pro<br/>- This caused some issues, so I had to do a System Restore<br/>12. Updated the graphic card's drivers in NVIDIA GeForce Experience<br/>13. Ran Windows Memory Diagnostic to see if there were any issues (there weren't any)<br/>14. Disabling "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" via Virtual Memory<br/><br/>I'm also going to link some screenshots I managed to grab of the usage before I noticed the slowdown and eventual crash happening:<br/><a href="https://imgur.com/Tl65QxW">https://imgur.com/Tl65QxW</a><br/><a href="https://imgur.com/0O8aRUA">https://imgur.com/0O8aRUA</a><br/><a href="https://imgur.com/G6i0lUi">https://imgur.com/G6i0lUi</a></p></body></html> | |