Since some time I have memory issues on my PC. There seems to be memory getting allocated for different tasks, but never released again.

This happened now several times during the last months. The memory goes down and down and down, f.ex. yesterday I only had 3% of memory left, this morning it was only 1% anymore, and the PC kind of freezes, you cannot really work anymore with it.

I checked, and there is one svchost task running which took about 11GB of my 12GB memory, and when trying to kill the process, I get an access denied notification, thus making it impossible to get rid of it. Don't know what this one is though, I have of course several of these svchost tasks running, but you cannot tell which one makes what.

So I had to restart the PC, which was also not possible, because it got eventually stuck on the restarting screen, so I had to reset the PC. Back up again, everything was normal, why wouldn't it be anyway, memory was free again, but when I started uTorrent f.ex, there were no torrents anymore, when I started Firefox, it didn't restore my tabs, and also PeerBlock reported some empty lists. Nothing important, but annoying.

I just wanna know if there's one task which is accumulating memory and not releasing it anymore, or could there be something else causing this?
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