Lately, my system cache gets bigger and bigger as the computer is on longer. My page file increases to almost 5 gig as time goes on, and never really comes back down. I have 2 gig of DDR memory, and right now as I type, I have 588 MB free (and dropping). And the page file is at 5.12 GB. I had 1.5 gig of RAM before that was defective, so I returned it and bought Corsair memory, which so far works great. Also before i was constantly getting the warning that my page file was too low, and windows was increasing it. I thought the switch would solve all of these problems.
Now, this screams memory leak to me, but I have no idea how to tell if that’s the case.
I’m running Win XP Pro, sp2
AMD 3200+
I was running win xp home up until about a month ago. I’ve formatted my drive umpteen times and got tired of calling MS to activate XP Home. There are 5 other partitions that haven’t been touched. (IOW all things created or saved there are from the XP Home installation.) Is this a problem in XP Pro only?
If anyone has any ideas, I’ll try 'em.
Thanks
Did you try looking up the memory utilization in task manager? Control-alt-delete (this brings up task manager). Go to “view/choose columns” and select memory usage and memory usage delta. Clicking on the column header will sort the output by that column, you can find your memory hogs that way. Memory usage delta means the process has just allocated more memory, so if you have a process that keeps showing a delta every time the task list refreshes, that’s probably your culprit there.
I just wanted to kick this back up to the frontpage for an update. If anyone finds that this is happening to them, I found out what it was. Well, for me, anyway.
It was a virus, and a really really nasty one. If you ctrl+alt+del and you see the program winlibupdate or just libupdate.exe running, you have the same problem. The fun part is, there’s almost no sure way to remove it. I had a system restore set up and that seems to have solved my problem, but if that winds up not working, format is really the only sure way to get rid of it. NAV doesn’t detect it, and neither does ad-aware. In fact, the only way I even stumbled onto it was that it was asking permission through Zone Alarm to access the net. When I looked in the program control, there were 2 programs, “libupdate” and “services and controller app” that had a yin yang as their icon. Yup, that’s what made me think they were suspicious. Anyway, I didn’t find them in the regestry where they were supposed to be so I could delete them so system restore was my next idea. So far so good. My page file is hanging out at 400 mb or so and the system memory has about 1.7 gig free.
Well, system restore didn’t work, and I am in the middle of a format, so I can’t see if trendmicro would have helped. I would have liked to have tried it. It’s pretty damn elusive, though. It can schedule times to start up and shut down, so who knows if PC cillin would have even rooted out entirely. I also think I discovered the program that installed it, so going forward it should be ok. Thanks for the link, though.