When booting Windows 8.1 my memory usage is about 1,7 GB. Then after some time - less than a minute - it jumps up to around 6 GB. Task Manager does not show anything that would use up that much.
Everything is fine with the memory because on Ubuntu everything is as it should be.
I guess that the problem appeared after the latest update I did. I am not sure though.
Any ideas?
You can also run perfmon tests and examine the detailed report that will be produced.
In order to run perfmon and get the report, open Powershell as an administrator and type:
perfmon /report
This will produce a report that it can be also saved as an .XML file and it opens with any browser.
Use Poolmon.exe to find which pool tag is the cause: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2012/08/30/troubleshooting-pool-leaks-part-2-poolmon.aspx
Often when we are collecting data for a poor performance scenario there are two pieces of data that we collect. Perfmon log data is one... The other piece of data is poolmon logs. The memory manager tracks pool usage according to the tag associated with the pool allocations, using a technique called pool tagging. Poolmon gathers this data and displays it in an easy to use format. Poolmon can also be configured to dump data to a log, and in some scenarios it is beneficial to schedule poolmon to periodically collect such logs. There are several available techniques to schedule poolmon...
Often caused by drivers.
