free space decreasing problem

[neilm]

Alright this is a weird problem, so I'm just seeing if anyone can relate to it because I could not find the source of it when it happened, it happened on my old computer (I formatted and gave it to my dad, so the problem went away... but would like to know what it was still).

The old computer had Windows2000 running, I forgotton the name of the file I executed and the site I got it from, but it did look lajit. Anyway I deleted it, then I think thats where the problem arised... my freespace kept decreasing for no reason, at the rate of around 10MB/30mins. It happened when I wasn't connected online also. I did check all my processes frequently, and nothing seemed to be wrong, just the normal stuff.

What was it for my own peace of mind, thanks for anything about it so I know for next time.

 

[DT4K]

Do you mean RAM or HDD space?

If you are talking about HDD, it is possible that you had some process that was logging something to a file so the file kept getting bigger and bigger.

If you are talking about RAM, sounds like a memory leak. Poorly written software that was allocating memory and never deallocating it. The process gradually uses more and more RAM until there is none left.

And it's possible that even if you deleted the program, there could have been some process that kept running and didn't get deleted.

 

[neilm]

Yea, hard drive space... I really didn't notice anything suspious at the time when looking at the processes that was running. But yea, it sounds you maybe right.

Would there have been a fix or anything for this? Since this so called process could not have been deleted.

Thanks for the helpful reply btw.

 

[MasterHoss]

Normally, I would suggest that you check the settings for System Restore, but losing 10MB in 30 minutes sounds like it's gotta be something else.

 

[DT4K]

I was just throwing out some possibilities. Who knows what was actually happening.
I'm not sure how you would find out which file was growing. Maybe do a file search based on last modified date or something.