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gbmolina

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ok, I'm using utorrent 1.7.4, I started using this app about a year ago presicely because of its low mem use, now it has become a hungrey monster, everything slows down in my machine when opening the program. and I'm NOT using nvidia firewall. I'm on win xp sp2, nod32 and the integrated win firewall, can anyone give me an answer please?

thanks

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IMON is active. what exception rules do you mean? for what program? i don't understand what you mean. anyway, I don't think the problem is nod32, because I started experiencing this since the last 2 or 3 versions of utorrent and I had the same settings for nod32 before that.

i just added the !ut extension in the list of files not to be scanned by nod32... hoipefully that will speed up things a little bit.

anyway, if the problem is nod32, why the task manager is showing utorrent as the main memory swallower?

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well, uo to some time ago (older versions of utorrent) I did not have those problems and the setting were the same and I also was using nod at the time.... I don't know what's wrong but if I can't find the answer I'll swith to anothe torrent client, alas.

thanks for the help

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I'm not getting any message of conflicts with Nvidia, besides, I'm telling you, this thing started happening about 3 months afo (I keep tha automatic new version check on), before that there was no such problem and I had the same hardware configuration, i.e., nvidi graphic card and asus motherboard.

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well, my advice to the utorrent developing team is to start looking for the problem within the code of the program. i think everybody is looking for something else, but the problem is the program itself. I'm going to try and find an older version, downgrade my installations and see what happens. hopefully, that will fix the memory isuue, otherwise... I'm swithching to another torrent client.

i'll post the result here.

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Most of the people that I know woud not be able to identify the program that is causing such a problem, because of the simple fact that their computer knowledge is below the average. Also, if a bug affects 20% of the users of a program, or even 10%, it's still a bug. i don't agree with the formulated opinion that everybody else is not compaining, than there is not a problem. I keep my machine very clean and I have tested utorrent with only the OS and the program running, I even killed a lot of system processes to see what happens, so I'm positive that the memory leak is from the program itself.

nevertheless I'll wait for the current downloads to finish and I'll install 1.6 version and I'll post the results.

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well... saddly, I have to admit that the problem is not in uTorrent. I downgraded it to v. 1.6 and it was the same. After that I removed it from my system and installed the latest bit torrent client. Same thing. Obviously, something is interfering with my downloads, seems to me that for some reason I'm getting too much incoming or outgoing connection. The only thing I have changed recently is my ISP, I wonder if that could be the cause...?

here is a list of the my installed software, just in case somebody has information of any of those programs messing around with torrents:

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1.9.2.1705 3.8 MB

AM-DeadLink 2.8.1 2.8.1 1.6 MB

Babylon 1160.0 MB

Biromsoft WebAlbum 4.0 9.2 MB

CCleaner (remove only) 1.4 MB

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TightVNC 1.3.8 1.3.8 2.2 MB

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WinRAR archiver 4.6 MB

Keep in mind that the only processes that are allowed to srat up with the OS are NODsa, logitech's mouse drivers, some Nvidia dll file (it's not a firewall!), ctfmon.exe (a system process) and clipcache (a clipboard utility).

thanks

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gbmolina said:

"Obviously, something is interfering with my downloads, seems to me that for some reason I'm getting too much incoming or outgoing connection."

What do you mean by that?

download or upload Speed ...or peer/seeds connected at once?

Did you test in safe mode to eliminate 95+% of the other programs without having having to uninstall them all 1-by-1?

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