NNF Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 Greetings!Firstly, I think uTorrent is one neat little program! I have been using it for a few hours and so far I really like it. I have, however, noticed very strange memory behaviour in Windows when uTorrent is running. The amount of available physical memory (as seen in Task Manager) will gradually decrease while uTorrent is running; I can actually see it counting down, like some a timer on a bomb in bad movies. When I close uTorrent, the amount of free memory goes right back up to ~640MB (and stays there) - but after a few hours of running uTorrent, my available memory was down to about ~350MB. This can't be right, can it? I'm not talking about the memory usage of the utorrent.exe process - that is indeed very low, however, somehow this program is wasting my free memory.I am, by the way, running Windows XP SP2 on a computer with 1GB of RAM. Note that I am aware of how Windows' memory management works, I know that it will free up memory when it is needed - just pointing out this weird behaviour of this otherwise great little program Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 Hm this has been reported before...My suggestion to the developers: maybe you can do the RAM reduce thingy every now and then (the same thing you do when you minimize or close to tray). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vurlix Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 I can see no explanation other than Windows caching the files utorrent is transferring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NNF Posted October 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 I'm not even downloading, just seeding (5 torrents, about 14GB in size total). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 But transferring doesn't only mean downloading. Maybe Windows caches the chunks being uploaded into memory :?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NNF Posted October 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 Who knows... Windows does do its own disk caching, I know that much. Hm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NNF Posted October 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 All seems well now, maybe I was too quick to classify this as a bug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squall Leonhart Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 :: Hi. I have this problem in the version 1.1.4, I try to change some options that can influence in the memory leak but nothing changes, the memory go down little by little.:: PD: By other side, this client is excellent, thanks for the great work. See ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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