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SleeplessPoster
I have a weird memory leak being caused by my paged pool. It's not urgent, as it only increases to 2GB and my PC runs fine without that memory (it has 14 to spare), but the deeper I've searched into this issue, the stranger it's become.
I've already discussed this with the Avast! developers on their own forums, falsely assuming that it was just their program causing the leak, but further research has made it clear that this isn't just an Avast-related issue.
Things I've noticed cause the pool to go up:
- Antivirus scans (Avast! or otherwise) always bring it up to 2.0GB, then it will fluctuate between 1.8GB and 2.4GB until the scan finishes.
- World of Warcraft causes it to go up by about 200MB.
- Running an sfc scan increases it.
- Right-clicking a large folder to see how big it is causes it to go up.
- On the other hand, playing certain "large" games SEEMS to make it go down by about 200-400MB.
When I restart, it always starts up somewhere between 220MB and 275MB and stays there until one of these things happen. I might be miscalculating, but it looks like after booting up my PC from a full shut down, it starts around 700MB. The Avast! developers told me it has something to do with file access drivers, but I don't know what that could mean or how to fix it. I've never seen it above 2.4GB, and it doesn't seem to be getting any worse.
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I've already discussed this with the Avast! developers on their own forums, falsely assuming that it was just their program causing the leak, but further research has made it clear that this isn't just an Avast-related issue.
Things I've noticed cause the pool to go up:
- Antivirus scans (Avast! or otherwise) always bring it up to 2.0GB, then it will fluctuate between 1.8GB and 2.4GB until the scan finishes.
- World of Warcraft causes it to go up by about 200MB.
- Running an sfc scan increases it.
- Right-clicking a large folder to see how big it is causes it to go up.
- On the other hand, playing certain "large" games SEEMS to make it go down by about 200-400MB.
When I restart, it always starts up somewhere between 220MB and 275MB and stays there until one of these things happen. I might be miscalculating, but it looks like after booting up my PC from a full shut down, it starts around 700MB. The Avast! developers told me it has something to do with file access drivers, but I don't know what that could mean or how to fix it. I've never seen it above 2.4GB, and it doesn't seem to be getting any worse.
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