So what is causing my memory leak?

[elkinm]

FreeRam XP pro is showing 310 MB free space. I can recover ram multiple times and it stays about the same of maybe 320 MB free.
I have nothing running other then 11 Internet Explorer windows, kaspersky and some basic windows processes. Task manager and freeramxp show about 27mb for kaspersky and 30 MB for IE with the rest adding up to maybe 50 MB if not less, after recovery.

If I reboot and reload everything as is I will have 700+ MB free. So where is the memory going and how can I clean it up.

My best guess is that it is lost in XP as it is so great at managing it, well somehow it took memory and won't give it up.

Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[elkinm]

It is happening again since I restarted. I only have 5 IE windows open this time which I left overnight. Reported memory usage is less then 30 MB for each one and the commit charge is over 900 MB and less then 300 MB free ram.

Anybody else have this?

 

[xtknight]

I would get rid of and stop using FreeRAM. Memory defragmenters don't really do anything good. That would be my first guess as to what's wrong. I don't know for sure though.

 

[postmortemIA]

Mwmory defragmenters obstruct OS in performing its duties.

That doesn't ever happen to me. My guess is that IE takes lots of memory from heap and it doesn't go directly in its use in task manager because of the way it was acquired. That is what Firefox does for sure - it loads good number of pages you have used in current session in physical memory, so that back/forward buttons work really fast.

 

[Rilex]

If ever there has been software where 'utility' begins with the letter 'f'...