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An update on Dell Inspiron XPS 1340 memory leak problems
Here's a new perfmon graph of the memory leak progress over half a day that I'm seeing on my computer. It's definitely *something* slowly eating my memory. But it doesn't show up in the process monitor.
If there was a process that grew in size to match the chart here, I'd know what to do, but there isn't. Here's a snapshot during normal idle time:
And here's a snapshot after I'm out of memory and have to reboot:
I wish I could still enable Pool Tagging and use poolmon to see who's eating up all that memory. What's the equivalent for the Vista/Win7 kernel? (The XP-era tools don't work)
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Hi, You might want to display
Hi,
You might want to display processes' virtual memory, which is much more accurate (and larger) than this "Mem Usage" column: in View menu/Select Columns, then tick "Virtual Memory Size" (2nd from the top on the right if it's the same as WinXP).
Maybe a process does free memory, but its allocated memory address range is not? Still that would be surprising under a 64 bits O/S!
I started uninstalling stuff
I started uninstalling stuff wildly, rebooting, and checking for 15 minutes whether the leak is back or not. OpenVPN, Bluetooth drivers, Cisco Wifi management, WWAN drivers, Pageant, Microsoft Office Send-a-Smile, MagicISO, ... the list goes on.
Finally, the memory leak has stopped. The last thing I uninstalled was... Dell Touchpad Utility. Go figure.
The follow-up question: How can that thing *possibly* leak 0.5 MB per second? I mean, that's quite impressive!
All your solutions are belong to me
Process Explorer? That's what i use to examine those annoying svchost.exe processes...
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
/Mattias
Time to Install Linux
:)