My computer is a giant Windows 8 paper weight. Every time i do anything that puts a bit of system load on my computer my non-paged ram usage goes through the roof. I find myself with 1 program open at the time of this screenshot.

http://oi43.tinypic.com/a3mjvo.jpg

Things i have tried:
- Changing RAM page filing to high, low even disabling the threshold. Absolutely nothing changed
- Running Poolmon almost non-stop to catch a leak. Everything looks normal.
- Just about everything i could see on the Windows 8 FAQ

So this is it, my last leg. My future in computers is based on this so if i do not find a fix soon i will be abandoning microsoft. I will never purchase another PC if this is how they are all going to be. 

My PC specs:
Intel i3 540
8GB RAM
Asus PH series mobo
WD 500GB HDD
ATI Saphire 6xxx series

Thanks for your help. Really is my last hope.

I had a very similar problem when I went to 8, I had used a slow hard drive, once I got a Sata II drive with plenty of cache things are much better, now running 8.1 and all is good. I was using a WD Green drive that was very slow.

Can you talk about what problem you are having because of the non paged RAM?   Windows 8 biases on what and where things get loaded have changed a *lot* it's true, but other than a problem with Hyper-V not being able to grab enough RAM to start a VM in 8.1 (there is a workaround for that), it all works pretty well here.  My RAM usage profile looks a lot like yours except I have a lot more apps open, so my committed figures are a lot higher, and I'm not having any kind of usage slow down.    

Thanks Bob. Yes. The issue being that number should not be that high! If i am doing a lot of things like running many different programs or playing a high resolution game, Windows forces me to close things because it says i do not have enough RAM. There is a leak somewhere that i cannot find. That screenshot was taken with nothing but Skype open using no more than 100MB of RAM.

I have noticed that things are quite different depending on the programs running and if they are desktop or start menu oriented but the basis is still that my RAM is disappearing into no where! That non paged RAM usage stays high until i restart my PC it then stays low until it randomly decides to start doing it again.

Can't say i can recognize a trigger, i have left it alone for a few hours before and came back to it being like that, as well as been doing everything from gaming to rendering or peer2peering. It just doesn't want to let me use my RAM :(

Your system does not seem healthy, based on the image you showed and the description of what you had running.

The RAMMap application may help you nail it down a bit...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx

 

Have you looked at the details tab in the task manager and adding the other various RAM status columns to see if you could figure it out what it is from that?    

Oh, and in case you don't know about it, there's a really handy tool called AutoRuns, also by SysInternals, that will help you see and manage what gets run behind the scenes in your computer...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

We disable 95% of the stuff that gets installed and run by various applications, and not surprisingly our systems run very lean.

   

The numbers are healthy for the given time before the "incident" occurs. I can post a picture of my system at healthy idle if you would like to see.

I have used the RAMMap before to monitor it but again, found nothing out of the ordinary. Like i said, the leak is not tethered to any tag or application that i can see using any windows program i have downloaded from the FAQ. I will continue to watch this program for hiccups. 

Thanks

Yes i am familiar with this too! Helped me disable a lot against this problem, (i like to think) it has made the problem a little better and is my new msconfig alternative hah