@MrGoat i will give that a whirrle! Thank you!
Resource monitor wasn't any big help in the end despite everything it does.
@MrGoat this is the first time I have seen it leak to this level.. 32 gb of total ram nearly all consumed. Yeah next step if it happens again is to start running monitors and start getting a larger dataset to analyze. :) windowzing is fun, and my day job!
@Idrake malwarebytes could help - sounds like a virus but I know nothing lol
@MrGoat i don't think it is a physical issue... but I also wasn't able to track down where 15gb of ram was being consumed application wise.