Posted by NewB on 01/12/07 00:26

thanks.. i'll give that a try.

I did a rollback to the day after i installed winmx and a short test
indicated the mem leak wasn't there.

I am suspecting that the mem leak was caused by an xp update but will
have to spend some time to confirm that.


On 11 Jan 2007 12:02:49 -0800, "nycram" <gvellenzer@gmail.com> wrote:

>You can avoid most of this crap by running WinMx in W98 emulation, and
>disabling visual effects. All this can be done on the tabs of the
>properties window that pops up when you rightclick on the exe file.
>
>remember that WinMx is a W98 program that barely co-exists with XP.
>Fuggeddabout Vista entirely.
>
>G
>Nu B wrote:
>> I have been running winmx v3.54b4 for some time on a new 3GB Intel
>> with 1GB RAM, running win mce 2005 sp2
>>
>> Running Taskinfo and ABPmon system monitors which are alerting me to
>> the overloads.
>>
>> I have less than 200 files shared on this system.
>>
>> about 10 days ago, I allowed several windows updates [I rejected IE v7
>> and WMP 11] - maybe coincidental.
>>
>> On the first winmx restart after update and reboot, I got alerts that
>> the system GDI objects were too high. I checked and winmx was using
>> about 6500. I rebooted and that hasn't happened since.
>>
>> Then, after running several hours, I got an alert that virtual memory
>> was overloaded. I peeked and winmx was using 1.3GB of memory. I
>> killed it and restarted. On restart, it was using only about 200mB.
>> Now, after less than 7 hours, it is using over 600MB and if it means
>> anything, it has done 3.3 million writes. [I am not downloading any
>> files, only uploading to others, with usually 2 or 3 slots active]
>>
>> Just now I got more warnings of Low Virtual Memory. Doing a flush
>> cleared a few resources, but Vrt MEM is still about 65%, RAM is 56%
>>
>> Anyone else experiencing anything like this? Any ideas on identifying
>> the culprit, assuming it was some recent M$ update patch?

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