Memory Usage Goes Up Gradually (Memory Leak)

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by raya2, May 25, 2010.

  1. dgriff20

    dgriff20 MDL Junior Member

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    Had one once and it stopped when I updated chip-set drivers on my DFI DK P45.
     
  2. raya2

    raya2 MDL Novice

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    Yes my CPU (P4) is HT
    I checked my PC with 3 Antispywares
     
  3. raya2

    raya2 MDL Novice

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    How can I do it ?
     
  4. raya2

    raya2 MDL Novice

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    Yes - I know that Avast could be a problem , but I uninstalled and replaced it with Avira Internet Security and my problem didn't solved

    I have more than 600 softwares and games installed on my PC , how can I uninstalled them one by one and wait one day for each of them to see if they are problem or not ( it takes 2 years)
     
  5. raya2

    raya2 MDL Novice

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    I updated intel chipset driver last day but nothing changed
     
  6. ibeqa

    ibeqa MDL Member

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    I have an old computer with Win7 Ultimate, 2 gig of RAM and avira antivirus but don't have mem leak. There is probably one of those "600" apps and games that is making problems.
    I am guessing, but 600 apps (you are using cracks) and one of them screwd your computer.
     
  7. burfadel

    burfadel MDL EXE>MSP/CAB

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    #28 burfadel, May 26, 2010
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    Never ever disable the superfetch service! You also disable prefetching if you do. If you have set it back to automatic!

    To disable properly, copy and paste the following in to notepad, save as filename.reg (call it what you like, as long as its .reg) and merge with the registry.

    Code:
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]
    "EnableSuperfetch"=dword:00000002
    By default it is set to 3 which applies to programmes and Windows startup.

    3 = Both Apps and Windows startup
    2 = Windows startup only
    1 = Apps only
    0 = Disabled

    The same applies with the 'Enableprefetcher' key, but that should be left at 3 (which is the same as with XP)

    In the task manager, its not the 'free' amount thats important under the peformance tab. The important value is what is shown under 'available' as that is what is available to programmes. This is also mirrored down the bottom as a percentage under 'Physical Memory' which shows whats actually in use by programmes, and of course the 'Memory' graphic.

    So whereabouts do you actually see the memory leak? The different between 'available' and 'free' is programme cache, that is immediately given up to programmes if needed, and programmes see the amount under 'available', not whats under 'free'.

    There is no benefit of flushing the programme cache, and it will actually detriment performance. Programme cache will still be fully utilised once programmes are loaded even without superfetch, it just won't keep loading the programmes once the memory becomes free.
     
  8. burfadel

    burfadel MDL EXE>MSP/CAB

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  9. Phazor

    Phazor MDL Expert

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    I agree. The Nonpaged value seems a 'little' on the high side.

    I made it a philosophy to have only processes running that are absolutely necessary and i have 87MB Paged and 25MB Nonpaged for Kernel.
     

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  10. burfadel

    burfadel MDL EXE>MSP/CAB

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    A little? Even with every service loaded and every possible bit of kernel hardware (not including drivers) and software support it won't even come close to that value!
     
  11. Phazor

    Phazor MDL Expert

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    Thats why i put 'little' in apostrophes. :)
     
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  12. GanjaStar

    GanjaStar MDL Novice

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    ctxfisp.exe might be the culprit.

    are you absolutely sure you have the latest drivers for your x-fi soundcard?

    i know past sets had memory leak issues.
     
  13. raya2

    raya2 MDL Novice

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    Yes - I have the lastest drivers for everything (including Creative X-fi Xtreme Music)
    someone in another forum suggested me to disable my sound card and now I disabled it . maybe it is my problem...
     
  14. MadSheep!

    MadSheep! MDL Junior Member

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    program leek 98%

    try to close this programs and use the computer for 2-3 hours

    Wacom_TabletUser.exe (Wacom)
    Wacom_Tablet.exe (Wacom)
    PsiService_2.exe (Corel)
    nvSCPAPISvr.exe (Nvidia)
    nvvsvc.exe (Nvidia)

    if problem continuous try closing this too
    ctxfihlp.exe (Creative)
    ctxfispi.exe (Creative)
    ctAudSvc.exe (Creative)
     
  15. dgriff20

    dgriff20 MDL Junior Member

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    Check in device manager to see if they did update, I needed to use 7 zip to unpack the Intel drivers then manually install each one!
     
  16. burfadel

    burfadel MDL EXE>MSP/CAB

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    The Intel chipset drivers aren't drivers per se, they are just .inf files. Updating manually literally won't make a scrap of difference :) - if it does, its because the act of reinstalling the device has fixed it more than just installing the INF reference :)

    Proper Intel drivers are like the AHCI/RAID performance driver, AMT, Turboboost...
     
  17. raya2

    raya2 MDL Novice

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    I found something important related to my problem:

    Each time I use my hard drives (copying, cutting, writing, downloading files on any of my 3 hard disks) , the speed of memory leak , increasing.(the memory usage goes up more quickly)
    It seems that the source of my problem is related to H.D.Ds.
    I already defragged all of my hard disks but it didn't help.
    Any other solution ?