Poolmon Memory Leak Driver
Aug 31, 2012 The tag and driver name can be used to search the internet for known problems. If a known issue is found a driver update may be available, and installing this update may prevent a future memory leak. If there are no updates available for the driver, or if this is your driver and you need to identify the cause of the leak, don’t panic. Apr 20, 2017 Driver developers and testers often use PoolMon to detect memory leaks when they create a new driver, change the driver code, or stress the driver. You can also use PoolMon in each stage of testing to view the driver's patterns of allocation and free operations, and to reveal how much pool memory the driver is using at any given time. This article describes how to use the Memory Pool Monitor utility, Poolmon.exe, as a troubleshooting tool to monitor memory tags. Poolmon displays data that the operating system collects about memory allocations from the system paged and nonpaged kernel pools and about the memory pools used for Terminal Services sessions. Aug 30, 2012 Because each tag should be unique to each driver, if we can identify the tag whose usage corresponds with the leak we can then begin to identify the driver which is leaking the memory. The tag may also give the driver developer clues as to why the memory is being leaked, if they use a unique tag for each code path.
Hello, I'm having a serious memory leak in the non-paged pool. It's consistently at 3.8gb, and after research, I know it should be in the region of mb. All fonts zip download. I'm not particularly computer savvy, but I've gone in and changed a few things in the registry including the Ndu file from 2 to 4, updated my drivers (I am not using a Killer networking chip but figured I might as well), disabling Superfetch, running Poolmon which I couldn't really understand, and other things that I can't recall right now. Basically everything that comes up when you google non paged pool memory leak or anything related, I've tried it. I really am out of options, and my computer is becoming unusable.
If anyone wants any more information or any more screenshots, please let me know. I would provide a poolmon screenshot, but it was in alphabetical order and making the window bigger caused it to go out of alignment making it illegible. I've spent about 5 straight hours trying to solve this issue on my own, and I'm pretty much out of ideas. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: I booted in Safe Mode, and when I booted back in normal mode, the issue had been resolved. This is something that I didn't see to try anywhere else, so anyone else who may be having this issue, please give that a shot.