Memory Usage Problem

[prosk8r729]

I read the faq that if your using NVIDIA firewall it will cause this. But the only firewalls I had were McAfee and my router. I uninstalled my McAfee Firewall disabled windows built in one and also disabled my router firewall. I cant seem to find the NVIDIA firewall either. Where can i find it?

EDIT: I tried uninstalling the NVIDIA display adapters in the control panel but then my monitor got screwed up and i still got memory usage problems. Also I'm running Hyper WRT firmware on my router (Linksys WRT54Gv3)

[prosk8r729]

Sorry if i double post but no one seems to have an answer to my problem.

[Ultima]

Give us a screenshot of Task Manager's process list?

[prosk8r729]

And it just keeps going up. If i leave it overnight it goes up to 1,495 but by then its already crashed. I left this on for about 10 min

[Ultima]

That's a rather long list... get Process Explorer, then go to File > Save. Copy and paste the list here.

[prosk8r729]

Process PID CPU Description Company Name

System Idle Process 0 76.92

Interrupts n/a Hardware Interrupts

DPCs n/a 0.77 Deferred Procedure Calls

System 4

smss.exe 712 Windows NT Session Manager Microsoft Corporation

csrss.exe 788 Client Server Runtime Process Microsoft Corporation

winlogon.exe 812 Windows NT Logon Application Microsoft Corporation

services.exe 860 0.77 Services and Controller app Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1028 0.77 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

mcvsftsn.exe 2232 McAfee VirusScan Instant Messenger Scan Module McAfee, Inc.

ehmsas.exe 1840 Media Center Media Status Aggregator Service Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1112 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

MsMpEng.exe 1224 Service Executable Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1264 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

InCDsrv.exe 1288 incdsrv Nero AG

svchost.exe 1468 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1628 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

spoolsv.exe 1764 Spooler SubSystem App Microsoft Corporation

ehrecvr.exe 772 Media Center Receiver Service Microsoft Corporation

ehSched.exe 988 Media Center Scheduler Service Microsoft Corporation

IAANTMon.exe 1192 RAID Monitor Intel Corporation

Mcdetect.exe 1328 McAfee WSC Integration Service McAfee, Inc

McShield.exe 1444 0.77 On-Access Scanner service McAfee Inc.

oasclnt.exe 1700 McAfee VirusScan OAS Client McAfee, Inc.

McTskshd.exe 1536 McAfee Task Scheduler McAfee, Inc

nvsvc32.exe 2456 NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 82.68 NVIDIA Corporation

svchost.exe 2512 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

mcrdsvc.exe 2792 MCRD Device Service Microsoft Corporation

ELService.exe 2908 Intel Corporation

dllhost.exe 3252 COM Surrogate Microsoft Corporation

alg.exe 3488 Application Layer Gateway Service Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 3892 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation

MSKSrvr.exe 4084 McAfee SpamKiller Server McAfee Inc.

lsass.exe 872 6.15 LSA Shell (Export Version) Microsoft Corporation

explorer.exe 272 0.77 Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation

mcvsshld.exe 416 McAfee VirusScan ActiveShield Resource McAfee, Inc.

McVSEscn.exe 436 McAfee VirusScan E-mail Scan Module McAfee, Inc.

mcagent.exe 448 McAfee SecurityCenter Agent McAfee, Inc

ehtray.exe 432 Media Center Tray Applet Microsoft Corporation

MSKAgent.exe 520 McAfee SpamKiller Agent Interface module McAfee Inc.

realsched.exe 576 RealNetworks Scheduler RealNetworks, Inc.

AtomicAlarmClock.exe 604

msmsgs.exe 616 Windows Messenger Microsoft Corporation

HOTSYNC.EXE 2112 HotSync® Manager Application Palm, Inc.

daemon.exe 236 Virtual DAEMON Manager DT Soft Ltd.

firefox.exe 780 Firefox Mozilla Corporation

DAP.exe 1860 Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) Speedbit Ltd.

procexp.exe 528 0.77 Sysinternals Process Explorer Sysinternals

utorrent.exe 2572 12.31

EBU17.EXE 2948 Microsoft Games AutoRun/Setup Microsoft Corporation

WkCalRem.exe 2304 Microsoft® Works Calendar Reminder Service Microsoft® Corporation

Thats an even longer list but i think it's Nvidia Driver helper service right?

EDIT: The memory usage still goes up

[Switeck]

You could try getting HijackThis and seeing what BHOs are installed/running. They are often major memory-eaters as well as adware/spyware.

[Ultima]

NVIDIA Driver Helper service does nothing, actually, besides slow your computer's shutdown speed. It's not NVIDIA's firewall. There doesn't seem to be any specific process that I could identify as something that might increase µTorrent's memory usage, though I must say, McAfee runs an astonishing amount of processes (a whopping 9). Not sure here...

[prosk8r729]

So i'm screwed basically?

[jsillup]

You could try a clean boot. Run msconfig, then click Selective Startup and untick everything except Load System Services and Use Original BOOT.INI. Next, on the Services tab, click Hide All Microsoft Services, then click Disable All. Now click OK and restart. If you can run µTorrent without any problem after you clean boot you can find the cause of your trouble by re-enabling all Services and restarting, then re-ticking Load Startup Items and restarting, then finally re-selecting Normal Startup. Unless you have a hardware problem or malware as suggested by Switeck I suspect something in your Startup Items list is causing your trouble, which you can isolate by disabling all then re-enabling sequentially on the Startup tab of msconfig.