Preemptive apologies for this glorified "it's nice to hear it's not just me" of a post.

To let you skip the anecdote if you don't care, I'd be very curious if someone can answer _why_ this happens.

Earlier this week I was running into Very Strange errors coming out of some deep libraries in one of my hobby services. Nothing was specifically failing but things were going very slow and vomiting a bit. I observed that I had over 25g of active Ram (Typically idle at ~8g) and some absurd amount of paged data too. Even after killing almost all non-system running processes I was sitting at ~20g total, including a 10g nonpaged pool and 6g process private. On reboot, and for the week since? 8g. (On Win10)