Yesterday my laptop got the blue screen of death (error code 0x0000001E). Looking it up on Microsoft suggests a kernel memory leak.
Since then, I've been keeping tabs on kernel memory.
I started up a game, and kernel paged memory went from 239-240 MB to nearly 280 MB and doesn't seem to wanna come down:
I might be panicking but this is serious. I've had my laptop for eight years and this has never happened before. How close am I to (the blue screen of) death?