n4pht4lin Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 Hi. Huge wall of text below, but to put it short: utorrent+active torrents = nsi service gobbles up my RAMI'm running utorrent 3.3 (29677) on a 32bit Win 7 Pro machine with 3.5 GB RAM (usable out of the 4 GB installed).I tend to reboot very rarely and leave my machine on for extended periods of time. Two reboots a month roughly, I would estimate. This is not a dedicated torrent machine, though. Im using it for everything.I've recently noticed that my system starts to run low on memory after a few days of uptime. Checking the reason in task manager, I noticed that a lot of memory is tied up in an instance of svchost.exe (more than 1.5 GB at one point, as I recall). This memory is apparently not released - only a reboot brings me back to normal system performance.The problem with svchost is, of course, that usually each svchost.exe contains a number of services, which can be seen by right-clicking the svchost.exe in task manager and selecting "go to service". So I googled for a way to identify which one of them is causing the memory grab and I separated those services into their own svchost instances until I could identify the one that eats my RAM: "nsi" ("network store interface service"). I have not found a reason as to why utorrent is causing nsi to need so much ram. Ive also not found a way to free memory up again (apart from rebooting).Now why am I posting this here?Because the RAM is only consumed whenever utorrent is running (with several active torrents).If I leave utorrent off, the RAM consumption is "normal". (However, turning utorrent off after the RAM is already taken up by svchost/nsi does not free up the memory again).Also, it seems that the more torrents are active, the more quickly RAM is taken up.Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 I'm running utorrent 3.3 (29677)Not the current stable version and build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n4pht4lin Posted August 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 very helpful, thank you..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 very helpful, thank you..!You AGREED to the forum rules when you signed up for the forum. You not reading them first is hardly my problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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