How to find what is using 98% of all the ram. When everything looks normal

[+Warwagon MVC]

How to find what is chugging all of your ram. When everything looks normal

Today I got a call from someone who all of the sudden had a really slow computer. After a bit of troubleshooting it appears as if something was consuming all of the computers 8GB of ram after every boot. In the performance tab the Physical Memory was at 98%. So I checked the Task manager and also used Process explorer. Noting was showing any sort of high memory usage. Also tried a bit more trouble shooting. Nothing worked.

After doing a little research online I was pointed to yet another Mark Russinovich Application called RAMMap

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229

This is just a sample shot

After downloading and running it, it showed the same info under processes as everything else did. BUT under the file summery tab, what I saw was some sort of error log file in the appdata\western digital directory, that was 7.5GB in size. once I removed the file the Physical Memory went from 98% down to 15%

This application was a life saver.

So for anyone who runs into a the same situation give this app a go.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

geez, why the hell was there a 7.5gb error log file?!? 0_o

and yeah, you gotta love the sysinternals suite :)

[+Warwagon MVC]

geez, why the hell was there a 7.5gb error log file?!? 0_o

and yeah, you gotta love the sysinternals suite :)

Well I think it was an error log file. It was blahblahblahblahbalhError file name.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

And what was causing the 7.5GB log file? That'd be something to investigate.

[+Warwagon MVC]

Well I want to wait for that file to be created again but in a smaller size. So I can explore it.

[Shaun N.]

Isn't that bad practice? I wouldn't like to do it that way.

[ThePitt]

first, why you didnt take a picture where it shows was using 7.5GB

and second how come that log file was loaded into the memory?

edit

lol?

[Guest]

Could it be that RamMap also shows the amount of cached memory being used as well as active memory?

[xendrome]

Probably, isn't this by design, are we sure Superfetch wasn't just caching the memory as it is supposed to...

[soldier1st]

A picture of the 7.5GB file in question would of been a good idea, as to help those understand the apps usage better.

[MediocreNoob]

IS there anything like this for previous versions of Windows? On the download page it says it only works on Vista and higher.

[Groovedude]

interesting useful to have noted down should this occur :)!

[mujjuman]

Interesting program. But yeah the RAM usage is funny!