Driver locked memory usage

 · windows taskmanager doesnt know this system since it is a simulation. thats why the 90% ramusage is displayed. as soon as you start to use more ram the "Driver locked" usage will drop to make space for actual ramusage for your vps. - In the task manager this results in a huge memory usage (90%).  · RAM Usage: "Driver Locked" is Hijacking 3 GB of my memory in Performance Maintenance After continued "Low Memory" errors causing programs to close, I ran a program called RamMap that told me GB of my memory is being locked up by a Driver.  · Driver locked memory is when a kernel-mode driver prevents memory pages from being swapped to the page file. It is through this mechanism that Hyper-V varies the amount of available memory to a guest when Dynamic Memory is enabled. In the case above, the Hyper-V Manager may show the guest only using about 50% of its maximum allocated memory with Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.

0. 10, 0. Jul 5, #1. I have been having some major issues with my PC lately, specifically with RAM. I downloaded a program called RamMap and had it look at my RAM usage. It says that over 7GB of my 8GB of memory is "Driver Locked." Does anyone know what that means or how to fix it so it's not using 90% of memory making the rest of my. windows taskmanager doesnt know this system since it is a simulation. thats why the 90% ramusage is displayed. as soon as you start to use more ram the "Driver locked" usage will drop to make space for actual ramusage for your vps. - In the task manager this results in a huge memory usage (90%). RAM Usage - "Driver Locked" hijacked 3 GB of my memory - looking for a fix After continued "Low Memory" errors causing programs to close, I ran a program called RamMap that told me GB of my memory is being locked up by a Driver.

2 Answers Driver locked memory is when a kernel driver prevents memory from being wrote to the page file. I will quote the answer, in case. 3 Des It is important to remember that the Driver Locked amount is an artificial lock on RAM that does not really exist for the virtual machine since. Will see the Assigned Memory will dropped and that balloon driver locked will actually go up again. DynMemory-Demo9. Give it some time Going.