Memory Leakage Problem?? Need Some Help Please!

[Labman]

My System:
BE6 Rev. 2.0
20 Gb Maxtor ATA 100
10 Gb WD ATA 33
CL Win Modem
SB Live
Radeon 32Mb DDR
P3 850
256 Mb Ram PC100
MS Optical Mouse - USB
MS Natural KB -PS2
Umax 1220U - USB Scanner
Logitech Quick Cam Express - USB
DLink USB Hub
Viewsonic G790
WinMe

Problem is this - After surfing the web for a while the system slows down and needs to be rebooted. Screensavers get slower and slower after a time and the mouse is sluggish and then finally locks up and system has to be rebooted. I'm thinking maybe that I have a memory leak.

I have assigned IRQ's such that nothing is shared. Everything is fine with the system except for this annoyance. I'd read on another site about leakage caused by Radeon drivers but I have the original 3056's installed and no one has mentioned mem leakage with them.

All power management has been disabled also.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks - Labman

 

[kitkit201]

I think the problem is your winmodem.. since winmodems are software based, they take some CPU load from your powerful system.. as time goes by while you are surfing the web, this memory can never be reclaimed because I assume you are using Win9x and they have a bad tendency to reclaim lost memory caches. Right now I am running this slowdown when I am surfing the web with this crappy winmodem too, so I feel your pain. HOwever if you go on Win2k Pro, their is no slow down at all becuase of the OS's good use of memory reclaimability. Even this winmodem was faster! in Win2k compared to Win98se so go fig...

Anyways, my advice to you is to spend the extra money buying a hardware modem, like 3com or USR and your thank your system a big time.!

 

[bub]

Try RamBooster (freeware).

http://www.sci.fi/~borg/rambooster/index.htm

 

[Labman]

I have access to a Zoom ISA modem so I'll give it a try and see what happens.

Thanks for the replies.

Labman

 

[Labman]

Tried the Zoom ISA modem and the problem still persists.
Any other ideas??

 

[MacBug]

Well, I dont think its a winmodem problem, but rather a program that you have running in the background, possibly spyware, to check, download stuff like ad aware 4.03 by lavasoft, look for it on download.com

Regarding those ram freers, they don't exactly help in this situation, windows allocates specific portions of ram for USER/GDI resources blah blah blah and you have a set amount, there isn't any program that can free that as far as I can tell, I am thinking in this case its those resource leaks, not because youa re running of ram and have to use swap file.

First post here on anadtech too, good luck

 

[rootaxs]

Speaking of the swapfile... have you set this to be dynamically managed by Windows or did you make this a permanent swapfile with a preset amount of space allocated for it?

 

[Labman]

The swapfile is managed by windows...no special settings.

 

[Kk4JC]

Download Taskinfo from download.com or somewhere like that, run it and see what's eatin' up your cpu.

Kk