RAM and VRAM are piling up.

[LautaroPRZ]

My RAM and VRAM keep piling up, and I don't know why. While I'm using my PC during the day, playing games or consuming content (mostly playing games), the RAM and VRAM keep piling up little by little, even when i close the game and just have two or three applications open, and my RAM usage is 12 - 14GB out of 16GB, also of the VRAM, 8 - 10GB out of 12GB, just being on the desktop or in chrome, not even playing games.
I've already tried to clear the cache from the AMD software and it doesn't do anything, the only solution is to restart the PC, this didn't happen before, it could be the GPU drivers (Adrenalin 24.7.1). I realized this when I opened Wallpaper Engine, and it told me that the video memory was insufficient, and I didn't have anything open. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.
My PC specifications:
-Ryzen 5 5600.
-Radeon RX 6700 XT.
-16gb RAM Corsair Vengance RS 3600MHZ
-Gigabyte M550M DS3H rev 1.2
-SSD 480Gb Western Digital Green WD NVME SN350 2400Mb/s

 

[agent_x007]

Make sure tabs open in Chrome aren't mining stuff in the background.

 

[LautaroPRZ]

How do i know that? That can happen in a legal page like youtube or twich?

 

[Ruru]

Just wondering that is it actually RAM usage or allocation.

 

[LautaroPRZ]

I think it's RAM usage, I use AMD Adrenalin metrics and HWinfo shows RAM usage.

 

[Toothless]

When was the last time you rebooted? Let's see your uptime, no cheating.

 

[LautaroPRZ]

That's the thing, I don't, the PC is turned on all day, I shut it down in the night when I'm going to sleep. But is weird, because sometimes this thing of the ram accumulating happens, sometimes happens sometimes don't.

 

[Hyderz]

Any software you installed that we should know? Sounds like something is happening in the background

 

[natr0n]

Dont use Chrome. it eat up ram even when not open runs as service. its trash software.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Screenshot task manager sort by memory usage, post here.

Example...

 

[eidairaman1]

Probably some crypto minor trojan from a website

 

[lexluthermiester]

My RAM and VRAM keep piling up, and I don't know why. While I'm using my PC during the day, playing games or consuming content (mostly playing games), the RAM and VRAM keep piling up little by little, even when i close the game and just have two or three applications open, and my RAM usage is 12 - 14GB out of 16GB, also of the VRAM, 8 - 10GB out of 12GB, just being on the desktop or in chrome, not even playing games.
I've already tried to clear the cache from the AMD software and it doesn't do anything, the only solution is to restart the PC, this didn't happen before, it could be the GPU drivers (Adrenalin 24.7.1). I realized this when I opened Wallpaper Engine, and it told me that the video memory was insufficient, and I didn't have anything open. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.
My PC specifications:
-Ryzen 5 5600.
-Radeon RX 6700 XT.
-16gb RAM Corsair Vengance RS 3600MHZ
-Gigabyte M550M DS3H rev 1.2
-SSD 480Gb Western Digital Green WD NVME SN350 2400Mb/s

Are you leaving your system on all the time? That can do it. You should be shutting your system down completely(no sleep or hibernation) when you walk away from it for more than an hour or so.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Are you leaving your system on all the time? That can do it. You should be shutting your system down completely(no sleep or hibernation) when you walk away from it for more than an hour or so.

Leaving a system on all the time generally isn't an issue there is always an offender. OP must have a misbehaving website, program, driver etc...

 

[iameatingjam]

Sounds like you might want a fresh install of windows. Also I'm not going to say firefox doesn't also use a lot of ram.... but.... I would personally use that over chrome.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

I have my daily-driver on for long periods and can still run large amounts of stuff with no problem. I only reboot then shut down for periodical cache-flushing to the SSD, so nothing is corrupted.

OTOH, the OLED of course, is regularly turned off.

With LCD, I can have still images all day and night long.

 

[LautaroPRZ]

Any software you installed that we should know? Sounds like something is happening in the background

No, i checked, and there is nothing that consume much of the ram.

Screenshot task manager sort by memory usage, post here.

Here. about an hour ago i used TronScript, maybe that helps, but i did have to reboot. In the right corner are the AMD Metrics. You can see there is not much programs open that consumes much RAM. (CefSharp.browser.Subprocces is from Razer Central)

Probably some crypto minor trojan from a website

In another forum someone told me the same, he recommend me to reinstall windows, make a killdisk for the SSD and flash a new bios for the board (idk if is the Mobo or the GPU bios). How i can know if it is some crypto trojan? I recently ran TronScript, maybe that wiped out the trojan.



PD: I didn't reply the other replies, but i read them, thank you for your help.

 

[Princess Garnet]

This sounds like a memory leak at first glance. Since it is happening in VRAM, it suggests it may specifically be a leak in VRAM and spilling into system memory (this can occur because up to half of your system memory can be used as VRAM). If it was a memory leak occurring in system memory, the inverse couldn't happen as memory can't spill into VRAM as far as I'm aware?

Shutting down doesn't restart the kernel, but restarting does, so if this "sometimes happens and sometimes doesn't", then the fact that you shut down sometimes might be part of it.

Within task manager, show two pictures; both in the "performance" tab focused with one focused on "memory" and the other focused on "GPU". This might give a better idea of what is going on.

The processes list doesn't always show the full picture, especially if it's a leak in something related to the system (drivers) as opposed to an application in the user space. Your process list doesn't show any single thing as unusually high.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Leaving a system on all the time generally isn't an issue there is always an offender. OP must have a misbehaving website, program, driver etc...

And it's fairly common thing. It's unlikely to ever go away because of the lack of attention paid to programmatic tidiness and precision.

I see this kind of thing all the time and when I ask how often people shut down their systems when they walk away, most say they never do. Yet when I tell them to shut the system down completely over night or whenever they're not using it, TADA!, their problems magically go away. Even phones/tablets need to be shut down a fresh restarted once a week.

@LautaroPRZ
Try this for a few weeks. Shut down your system every night before going to sleep and chime back in with how your system is doing. I'd bet real money you'll see an improvement.