Total physical & virtual memory utilized by a process tree.

Question

Is there a way in process explorer (or some other interactive tool) to get the total physical and virtual memory used by some process tree?

I have a windows 11 laptop with 16GB of memory and 11GB of it is being used by windows after it has booted and without any apps running (I have disabled all my startup apps including sysmain.

Being able to easily explore the process trees and get memory sizes at any level in the heirarchy would be very useful but I did not see any columns which provide this information. Am I missing something

Answer 1

Hey mark,

Sure you can try Windows Sysinternal tool Process Explorer - process-explorer

Hope this helps.
JS

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Answer 2

Hi

The PoolMon tool displays general memory information, including total and free memory, page faults, kernel physical memory, committed and committed limits, peak memory, and paged and nonpaged pool sizes.

You can try this tool to test if it fits your needs:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/poolmon-overview

Best Regards,
Wesley Li

Answer 3

Hi,

Thank you for your question and reaching out.

I understand that you want to know what apps or services are using your total physical and virtual memory. To check, you may open Task manager by right-clicking on Start menu then select Task manager. You will see a list of apps using your Memory from there.

If you think that Windows unnecessary use your RAM after starting it up, you may check this link for the steps you can do to prevent this from happening again https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/tips-to-improve-pc-performance-in-windows-b3b3ef5b-5953-fb6a-2528-4bbed82fba96

For tips on how to improve app performance by reducing the use of memory and disk space, you may also refer to this link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/performance/disk-memory

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