Vista x64 Memory leak?

I'm running Vista x64 on a Dell D630 with 4GB RAM (max allowed). Over time
(a day, maybe two) available ram drops to the point where the system
complains that i have to quit apps to free up memory. I quit the only thing
that's running (Firefox) and that doesn't seem to free up anything
significant. I need to reboot to get my RAM back.

anyone else seen this behavior?

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:42:53 -0500, "Chris Johnsen" <>
wrote:

>I'm running Vista x64 on a Dell D630 with 4GB RAM (max allowed). Over time
>(a day, maybe two) available ram drops to the point where the system
>complains that i have to quit apps to free up memory. I quit the only thing
>that's running (Firefox) and that doesn't seem to free up anything
>significant. I need to reboot to get my RAM back.
>
>anyone else seen this behavior?

Only when I once deleted my page file to see what would happen.

Do you know how to check yours?

"Chris Johnsen" <> wrote in message
news:ACB3EE6F-1063-4B23-B35F-...
> I'm running Vista x64 on a Dell D630 with 4GB RAM (max allowed). Over
> time (a day, maybe two) available ram drops to the point where the system
> complains that i have to quit apps to free up memory. I quit the only
> thing that's running (Firefox) and that doesn't seem to free up anything
> significant. I need to reboot to get my RAM back.
>
> anyone else seen this behavior?


Are you running any antivirus or other 3rd party security programs? Some
extensions for Firefox are known to cause this as well.

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
http://vistahelpca.blogspot.com/

In article <ACB3EE6F-1063-4B23-B35F->,
Chris Johnsen <> wrote:
>
>anyone else seen this behavior?
>

Firefox 2 has known memory leaks.

Hi,

If, as has been suggested, the problem lies with Firefox, then closing it
will not resolve the problem. A "leak" is actually the opposite thing, the
program does not release memory that it's no longer using. Only by rebooting
are the handles released.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Chris Johnsen" <> wrote in message
news:ACB3EE6F-1063-4B23-B35F-...
> I'm running Vista x64 on a Dell D630 with 4GB RAM (max allowed). Over
> time (a day, maybe two) available ram drops to the point where the system
> complains that i have to quit apps to free up memory. I quit the only
> thing that's running (Firefox) and that doesn't seem to free up anything
> significant. I need to reboot to get my RAM back.
>
> anyone else seen this behavior?

Chris Johnsen wrote:
> I'm running Vista x64 on a Dell D630 with 4GB RAM (max allowed). Over time
> (a day, maybe two) available ram drops to the point where
> the system complains that i have to quit apps to free up memory. I
> quit the only thing that's running (Firefox) and that doesn't seem to
> free up anything significant. I need to reboot to get my RAM back.
>
> anyone else seen this behavior?

In addition to not releasing memory, Firefox has been known to give your cat
warts. If you don't have a cat, you should be okay on that front.

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 11:44:42 -0500, "HeyBub" <> wrote:

>In addition to not releasing memory, Firefox has been known to give your cat
>warts. If you don't have a cat, you should be okay on that front.

You need a new one... this one is really old.

And about the releasing of memory, that's been fixed in 3.0