MBM5 has a giant memory leak

[beatle]

I have 768 megs of ram in my machine and with only a few applications open I noticed that over half of my ram was being used. I opened up task manager to check out who the culprit is and to my surprise it was MBM5! It was sucking up over 140,000k! I let it be for a while and then came back to see it was using less than half of that. This morning I check its status and it's back to 98,000k! I'm using version 5.2.2.0 on WinXP FWIW.

 

[bgeh]

i'm using MBM 5.2.1.0 and checked the Task Manger and it reported that it used 3,136KB

 

[Jeff7]

5.2.1.0 here, and it's using 1,204KB right now; did you enable anything recently that might have caused this?

 

[drewdogg808]

hmm...i'm using 5.2.2.0 on winxp, and it shows 5,000k for me.

 

[Necrolezbeast]

wow! when I get my rig back up I'll see what it's sucking from me...

 

[Nohr]

My computer's been up for about 24 hours now and MBM5 is using under 4MB. Version 5.2.2.0.

 

[bozo1]

5.2.2.0, 46 days uptime, 1120K used.

 

[beatle]

Hmmm... mine seems to fluctuate greatly. I was at an even 5000k earlier today and now I'm at 9888k. I am logging my temps, set to update every second, so I may be expecting more than some of you, but for it to balloon up like this is ridiculous. Anyone have any idea why?

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

5.2.1.0 here
it sez peak so far was 3388K, right now its at 1228K
ill leave it on to see how it fairs in some time

 

[THUGSROOK]

try something else besides mbm?

what motherboard?

IMHO: mbm sux

 

[beatle]

ChampionAtTufShop, where did you find the peak amount of ram a program has used? That sounds useful.

Thugsrook, what would you reccommend as an alternative to MBM? As this incident seems isolated to me, it seems like a pretty solid program for everyone. My motherboard is a KT7a-raid, so Asusprobe won't work.

 

[THUGSROOK]

Abit hardware monitor dont work?
latest version?

that sux
i always recommend the software that comes with the board.

 

[beatle]

Should Asusprobe work on my Abit motherboard? If it should, I'll give it a try.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

i doubt it
unless they used same sensor stuff

...why not give it a try anyways lol

 

[THUGSROOK]

oops sorry ~ minor brain fart there....

use the abit winbond software that came on your cd

 

[THUGSROOK]

then plug your cpu fan in somewhere else

 

[beatle]

Are you sure that it's turning your fan off? MBM has recorded 0rpm for the fan in my antec truepower 330, but both were still spinning.

 

[KF]

Originally posted by: beatle
I have 768 megs of ram in my machine and with only a few applications open I noticed that over half of my ram was being used. I opened up task manager to check out who the culprit is and to my surprise it was MBM5! It was sucking up over 140,000k! I let it be for a while and then came back to see it was using less than half of that. This morning I check its status and it's back to 98,000k! I'm using version 5.2.2.0 on WinXP FWIW.

Is this after you installed the patch for the memory leak?

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

after 5-6hrs mine is only at 1524K lol

if there is a fix for a memory leak, you should have used it
try it now lol

//edit
if the fix is at the site, wait for the site to be fixed

 

[beatle]

Originally posted by: KF

Is this after you installed the patch for the memory leak?

There is a patch?

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: beatle

Originally posted by: KF

Is this after you installed the patch for the memory leak?

There is a patch?

i dunno
i would also like to konw for the new version of mbm5
the old one apparently doesnt need it from what im seeing (my, and others, ram usage seems to be pretty "normal")

 

[KF]

MBMUPDATE.zip

I downloaded MBM5220.exe on January 25th, and at that time they said you should also download MBMUPDATE.zip to fix a memory leak, which I did. The previous version evidently did not have a memory leak.

 

[ProviaFan]

MBM5 doesn't have any memory leak problems for me, but Coolmon eats RAM like a (insert something that eats a lot here) in Win2k Pro. After I caught it using almost 200MB of my precious 512MB of RAM, I said screw desktop stats and decided to wait until the new version of samurize (sp?) comes out.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: beatle
ChampionAtTufShop, where did you find the peak amount of ram a program has used? That sounds useful.

Thugsrook, what would you reccommend as an alternative to MBM? As this incident seems isolated to me, it seems like a pretty solid program for everyone. My motherboard is a KT7a-raid, so Asusprobe won't work.

sorry i didnt see this earlier lol

ctrl+alt+del>processes>view>select colums>peak memory usage

 

[beatle]

Ah, that's excellent Champion. Can someone email me this MBM update? Their site has been down for hte past day and I'm not sure when it'll be up.

Via HM tells me what the temps are, but there is no tray display that I can see, which is why I run MBM.