Windows computers and servers may experience troubles with memory overflow caused by a leak of a certain system driver that stores its data in the system’s non-paged memory pool. Non-paged memory pool is data in the computer’s RAM used by the kernel and drivers of the operating system. The non-paged pool is never swapped to the disk (to the paging file), it is always stored only in the physical memory.
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