Question

i’m having problems with paged pool resource on windows.

I’m writing a dll with c++ and, when i execute it, in “task manager” i can see the paged pool value increase.

What can cause a growth of this value? allocating mem (with malloc, calloc, etc..)? something else?

Thanks,

Answer 1

This means you’re indirectly causing something in kernel mode (i.e. ntoskrnl or drivers) to allocate memory. Paged pool is the rough equivalent of heap memory for kernel mode. If this isn’t actually causing an issue for you, it’s nothing to worry about.