eighto2 Posted October 11, 2005 Report Share Posted October 11, 2005 i have 2 torrents going and i'm at about 435 / 512 mb close down utorrent.. 130/512 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted October 11, 2005 Report Share Posted October 11, 2005 That's a first! :shock: Can you grab a screenshot from XP's Taskmanager (assuming you're using XP)? :?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted October 11, 2005 Report Share Posted October 11, 2005 Very odd. So far, µTorrent has had a peak memory usage (read: PEAK!) of 5MB. It never used more then that here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeppal Posted October 11, 2005 Report Share Posted October 11, 2005 Max it went up to was 5MB...and that was with 6 torrents. And im rounding up the figure, it was less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guillaume Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 I can confirm this. In Task Manager there is no indication whatsoever that µTorrent is causing the memory leak: mem-usage just stays ~4MB. However when µTorrent is running mem-usage increases steeply and when closing the program all memory becomes available again.Only 3 torrents in the list, one of them just seeding.Windows XP SP-2512MB RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Seed Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Only 2 Mb of RAM right now with 1.1.4 and seeding one torrent 8). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guillaume Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Only 2 Mb of RAM right now with 1.1.4 and seeding one torrent 8).As I said, there's no indication in the task manager of µTorrent using all this memory. You can only see it because of the rapidly decreasing amount of free memory. Furthermore, it could have something to do with disk writing, so if you're only seeding, it would be quite obvious you wouldn't see any mem-issues.Oh, I fiddled around some with the buffer/delay settings, but since this all started, they're back to 500kB/500ms. Restarted µTorrent a couple of times, I'm really sure it causes these leaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeon17x Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Screenshots of your task manager would really help, so that we could determine what other programs you were running at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guillaume Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 The only two program that might interfere or something would be PeerGuardian and avast!, however I have never had problems with BitComet & PeerGuardian, or ABC & PG. Furthermore I closed all programs and there was no indication of large memory usage in any of the processes in task manager.One torrent is finished now and seeding only: memory usage decreased drastically but still is increasing in time quite rapidly and when closing µTorrent memory is freed up again.[edit]PeerGuardian closed now, avast! on-access scanner disabled, restarted µTorrent, still the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozz Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Confirmed, uTorrent is using over 300mb of physical memory here (with a reported 4mb in task manager).Resources can be used without showing up in task manager, check for yourself, it's undoubtely uTorrent that's causing it.How to checkStart uTorrent, start a couple of torrents.Open task manager select "Performance" tab. Keep an eye in the top right box ("Physical Memory"), watch how Available keeps getting lower, and lower, and lower, close uTorrent and a second later you have everything back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Doesn't seem to happen here, in the few short tests i did.I'll post later when i can provide more test info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suxen Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 I haven't had any major problems either, while the interface was open I peaked at about 13MB of ram - I assume that's normal. When minimized to the tray I had no problems, using about 2-4MB max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guillaume Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 I haven't had any major problems either, while the interface was open I peaked at about 13MB of ram - I assume that's normal. When minimized to the tray I had no problems, using about 2-4MB max.That's not what I meant, however 13MB is quite a lot, but then again I only have had ~3 torrents at once in the program, that could make the difference. Now this is exactly what I mean:How to checkStart uTorrent, start a couple of torrents.Open task manager select "Performance" tab. Keep an eye in the top right box ("Physical Memory"), watch how Available keeps getting lower, and lower, and lower, close uTorrent and a second later you have everything back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Thats what i did. No strange drops here.. my memory stays at about 49-50% usage, i have 512mb RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guillaume Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Could it be something with the amount of peers µTorrent is connected to? I checked the connection and as long as there are more peers µTorrent is being connected to, more memory is being 'used'.BTW, started at 300MB free, now only 30 left...29...25. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 In that case, try enabling the "Connect To Peers Slower" option and check the memory usage with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vurlix Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Sigh... this is undoubtedly Windows' disk cache at work. Free memory is used automatically to cache files (and freed when no longer needed) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eighto2 Posted October 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 I think it was an issue with nod32 just not liking utorrent, because now i switched to AVG free and everything is in perfect working order!!! Shame tho, i lost 31 day uptime, but oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozz Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Sigh... this is undoubtedly Windows' disk cache at work. Free memory is used automatically to cache files (and freed when no longer needed)One would think you could flush that cache from time to time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imuk Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 One would think you could flush that cache from time to time http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Sync.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozz Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 One would think you could flush that cache from time to time http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Sync.htmlWithout running a command line tool every 10minutes...I mean, if even Photohshop can work with 200mb files for hours, uTorrent should be able to to the same. Actually never seen this behaviour ever before in any software Edit:Haha, just got the weirdest error ever, "Disk overloaded"... With an amazing 180kb/s... Something's very wrong with 1.1.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costa Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 utorrent running for two days, seeding now 8 torrents and memory usage is about 5 megabytes. no memory problems for two days. runs smoothly with peerguradian 2 and nod32. no leaks.windows xp pro sp1, no additional updates from microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 As vurlix said, this is no leak. Probably windows' caching in work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costa Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 chaosblade: so where is my cache then? seems like no windows upgrading does some good to ones memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozz Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 utorrent running for two days, seeding now 8 torrents and memory usage is about 5 megabytes. no memory problems for two days. runs smoothly with peerguradian 2 and nod32. no leaks.windows xp pro sp1, no additional updates from microsoft.As long as you don't look at the task manager report for uTorrent, that's useless info, it's the overall physical memory usage we're talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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