Commit Charge 13/17 (GB)? With nothing running? SOLVED

[VirtualLarry]

When you close apps, shouldn't your commit charge go back down?

I'm a little concerned. This is my G3258 rig, it's been running for 7:23:38:xx.

Task Manager shows my commit charge to be 13/17.

I went to the Processes tab, added "Commit size" to the columns, clicked it so that the highest was listed at the top, and the highest (before I opened the web browser to post this) was like 100MB. Nothing.

Do I have a rootkit? Kernel pageable memory leak in the ATI drivers? (Running 14.9 WHQL, I believe.)

OS is Win7 HP 64-bit SP1 + updates.

I am using 4.11GB of physical RAM, out of 8GB installed, with zero programs showing in the "Applications" tab in Task Manager. Biggest RAM user is SVCHOST.EXE (LOCAL_SYSTEM) with 40MB. Biggest "Commit Size" is 106MB (CCC.EXE).

Task Manager "Performance" tab RAM stats:
Physical Memory (MB)
Total 8077
Cached 5990
Available 3677
Free 343

Kernel Memory (MB)
Paged 334
Nonpaged 216

System
Handles 417340
Threads 685
Processes 51
Up Time 7:23:50:52
Commit (GB) 13 / 17

 

[Dahak]

I was curious too, so I was able to find this
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/...puters-performance-task-manager#1TC=windows-7

Commit (MB). A description of virtual memory use (also known as paging file use). The paging file is space on your hard disk that Windows uses in addition to RAM. The first number is the amount of RAM and virtual memory currently in use, and the second number is the amount of RAM and virtual memory available on your computer.

The rest are just counters for keeping track of things from what I can gather, should not be an issue

 

[VirtualLarry]

Now my commit charge is 17 GB out of 21GB.

This means that I am using 17GB of virtual memory, and it boggles me where it is all going.

I think that the number of handles has something to do with it though.

Handles is showing as 566490. On my Win8.1 system (recently upgraded), the number of handles was something like 22000.

I went to the Processes tab, and added Handles to the columns.

Two processes, both related to my Realtek AC1200 USB3.0 wifi dongle, one has 428340 handles, the other has 116084 handles. The next highest number of handles is 4744, an Einstein@Home (BOINC) worker.

Edit: I killed those two processes, and now my commit charge is down to 2GB. Handles are down to 22200.

 

[John Connor]

If you wanna scan for rootkits check out TDsskiller. Or Malwarebytes antirootkit.

 

[VirtualLarry]

It's not a rootkit, that I can tell. The culprit is RunSW.exe (32-bit) and SwUSB.exe (32-bit). Those are accessory apps that came with my Realtek 8812AU USB3.0 wifi 802.11ac AC1200 adapter, using the Edimax drivers.