Extremely high memory usage 1GB+

[KingZee]

I've recently noticed that when uTorrent has been running for at least 1 night the memory usage becomes extremely high. If I close uTorrent and open it back up it starts at a low ~6MB but will grow to over 1GB over night. Any Ideas?

[Ultima]

Is it the µTorrent process's memory usage that bloats that much? Or is it just that you seem to be missing 1GB of RAM?

[KingZee]

no, it's specifically uTorrent's memory usage, I just restarted or I would post a screen shot. Btw, I'm on version 1.8.1

[Firon]

So you see utorrent.exe using that much memory in the processes tab?

Do you use the NVIDIA firewall?

[Protke]

Having the same problem here, there seems to be some kind of memory leak involved, since the uTorrent with or without downloads starts consuming more and more RAM (a few K every few seconds, along with some proc time, checked via process explorer) leading to system clog. No nVidia fwall here, but out of resident possible problem causers: Apache server, SQL server, SpyBot TeaTimer, NOD32 and SnagIt. Hope u resolve this soon.

Edit: managed to NOT SEE the nVidia fwall among the bunch of useless progs installed on this machine, sorry for the false alarm, thanx for the solution

[KingZee]

I have the firewall installed but it's not running, can that still cause the same issue when it's not running at all? I've never actually used the firewall, when it was running before it was disabled but I closed it after reading about memory leak issues somewhere else.

[DreadWingKnight]

Yes it can cause problems just being installed.

the only way to stop its problems is to uninstall it.

[KingZee]

just to update anyone also having this issue. I uninstalled the nvidia firewall and the problem is fixed.