Windows 10 Cached memory slowing performance to a crawl

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My photo workstation grinds to a halt on a regular basis. It doesn't crash; it just becomes unusably slow. Often it's not even possible to launch the task master or restart (other than via the power switch).The symptom seems to be that memory (64Gb) is completely filled with Cached items. Individual process commits only total a few Gb (say, 10% of total). The rest is Memory Mapped files on the Standby or Modified list according to SysInternals RamMap. Performance is fine until the Cached entries completely fill physical RAM.The file lists in RamMap don't reveal any particular culprit. The file

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