What does the task manager tell you about what is using all of the memory?
-----Original Message----- From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:chumph...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 7:02 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: PC Help - Catching a Memory Leak Well, so much for that idea... I had to remote in this evening and while the 3pm reboot was not needed, my system's memory was pegged at 100%. Any ideas on tools or methods to track down the culprit? Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some smelting to find it. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:56 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <chumph...@gmail.com>wrote: > I uninstalled both the plugin and active x for Flash and turned off > Windows Search. Will see what happens. > > Thanks > On Jul 17, 2013 10:23 AM, "Jerry Milo Johnson" <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> 2 things in my life take every expanding memory. >> >> Flash plugin in browser >> Windows search/index service (which also uses all harddisk space >> eventually) >> >> just some possible thoughts. >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:16 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey >> <chumph...@gmail.com >> >wrote: >> >> > >> > I've got a computer that has a memory leak somewhere... at least >> > I'm >> fairly >> > certain that's the case. >> > >> > It's an office machine with decent stats: >> > Intel Duo E7500 (3GHz) >> > 4 Gb RAM >> > 300 Gb drive, 50% free space >> > Win 7 Pro 32 bit OS (for legacy app compatibility) >> > >> > Used to run like a champ. About 3 months ago something happened >> > and >> every >> > day at some time between 2 and 3 PM I get a "Low Memory Error" >> > warning >> and >> > have to reboot the machine. When I come in every morning I have to >> reboot >> > it again. >> > >> > I've uninstalled what I thought was causing the issue (Kaspersky) >> > but >> that >> > did not help. Before I start uninstalling other software or >> > reloading >> the >> > machine from scratch I'm wondering if anyone has any recommended >> > tools and/or strategies for capturing and identifying the culprit. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > Until Later! >> > C. Hatton Humphrey >> > http://www.eastcoastconservative.com >> > >> > Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to >> > do >> some >> > smelting to find it. >> > >> > >> > >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:365538 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
