barwick Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 This happened a lot more when I had "fast user switching" enabled, but now it's happening again. If I leave my machine turned on and running for a few days like I normally do, after a while, the page file will get up to like 700 megs (right now after a reboot it's around 300 megs, it used to be smaller though...), and the system will just absolutely crawl, and the hard drive is churning like no other.Is there a fix for this, besides "just reboot"? It's ridiculously annoying, and sometimes I'm working on a project for a few days at a time, and don't want to shut it down and restart it, re-open all my programs, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 Sounds like a program you're using has memory leaks or such, hence your memory usage goes through the roof. As it starts paging a lot, of course it'll come down to a crawl.You shouldn't have to reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barwick Posted September 28, 2006 Author Share Posted September 28, 2006 so find a memory leak finder & run it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takeshi Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...;hl=memory+leak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barwick Posted September 29, 2006 Author Share Posted September 29, 2006 wtf... it's my friggin' Linksys network manager, it goes up by 8k every few seconds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 That is definitely a leak... if by 'network manager' you mean the utility that sets the configuration of the wireless adapter, you don't need it. Windows XP has its own wireless configuration utility, which works perfectly fine.Fix the pagefile's size (I prefer 1024/1024) after a defrag and you will notice better performance as it fills up, since it doesn't have to resize and possibly fragment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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