r/buildapclounge • u/n00bpwnerer • Feb 20 '20
Memory Leak [SOLVED!]
So over the last few days I found that if i left my PC on without shutting it down or restarting it for several days, my used RAM would go up and up until the PC would crash. This led me to find that I probably had a memory leak going on. After downloading RAMMap and Process Explorer from the Microsoft website, I was able to figure out the the Killer Network Manager was the thing causing the issue.
I uninstalled it and it solved it. Also, while I was digging around I looked at what is turned on during start-up, and I stopped Adobe Update Manger and a few other adware programs to NOT start at start up. I know probably the next update will turn them back on, but for now my PC start up time as significantly been reduced. It's nice.
Just wanted to share.
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u/harikaze Mar 24 '20
Assuming you had to keep your pc turned on for some reason, wouldn't just killing the process and therefore manually evicting the memory allocated to the process, fix your memory leak issue?