Horrible MEMORY LEAK while transfering files! HELP!

[AMD4ME2]

I have been experiencing horrible problems lately, My speed downloading starts out great then gradually drops to completely worthless speeds on my cable modem connection... I start at about 250KB/s and end up at 20KB/s..... I ran Memturbo while doing a local transfer on my network and watched the available memory go from 55meg free to 0meg free in about 20seconds time.. tried reinstalling windows, tcp stack, and vtcp.386 update.. no luck... below is my setup

microstar 5169 mainboard(ali alladin5)
128 corsair cas2 memory
geforce256 sdr(elsa erazor x)
Netgear fa310tx nic card
sb pci512
running win98se(haven't tried complete format yet, just deltree windows and reinstall)

any help is appreciated!

 

[obenton]

What process /program /service is grabbing all that memory? Task manager likely can tell you.

 

[AMD4ME2]

no idea, I took a screen shot of the whole sorted mess... using memturbo and the copy dialog box... clearly shows memory taking a drastic dive during the transfer... task manager is only running the bare basic stuff + memturbo... however I know its not memturbo..

 

[obenton]

There's a system utility that tells you how much memory each running process is using - don't remember where it is in win98 since I've been using w2k for many months. But I'd find it, and check it before and during and after the file transfer. Perhaps it's one of the modules in System Monitor.

 

[Xanathar]

Sounds more like a program's memory leak. A bunch of FTP software has problems downloading files larger then 100 megs. Try updating to a newer version, or trying different software.

 

[AMD4ME2]

problem is there are no programs running other than what runs after a fresh install.... I have installed nothing... except the network card.. im copying files from one of my PC's to the other on my local lan.. only other thing running is memturbo which shows my current memory situation. If I can post a picture here when I get home from work I will... trust me you will laugh :-D shows less than half the transfer done.. and a graph of my memory diving to nothing.

 

[1KrazyFool]

Be smart and use System Monitor. If you didn't install it w/ Windows, use Add/remove programs. Add some graphs like Swapfile usage, Available Phyicsal Memory, Disk Cache size, etc. I bet that your disk cache is growing as your transfering the file. That's its job. Look into it.