Very bad memory leak

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Zeikai

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Hello, about two weeks ago I started to have a memory leak, unfortunately right around the time wildstar came out. Just leaving my computer idle the memory just keeps piling on, to the point that if I leave it on over night and wake up the next morning, it's idling at about 90% usage and a constant 30ish% on the cpu.

I figured it was a virus, although I haven't gotten one in years, so I ran malwarebytes and a couple of different antiviruses and nothing came up. So I thought it was bad memory, bought two new 4gb sticks and through them in, and exact same thing happened even on 16gb, it's now taking up 11gb of ram just idling, and resource monitor shows that barely 3gb are actually being used. The only odd thing I noticed is that svchost seemed to be taking up a ton, but nowhere near that much.

Really unsure of what to do aside from system restoring, but I would rather know what this issue is and get it fixed then do that. Any help at all would be fantastic. Below is a link to pictures of my task manager and resource monitor.

http://imgur.com/juIE4ov
http://imgur.com/AZpMuHi
 
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skit75

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Something is being sent over your network. Adware/Spamware of some sort.

Maybe Wildstar is using a P2P network and you are seeding? A memory leak can usually be traced to its application very easily. Svchost is usually network traffic of some sort.

Did you do complete scans with MBAM?
 
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This is not bad memory so don't waste your money. When memory is bad it is bad. Some day in the future when memory chips become large enough then OSs will be able to mark 'bad sectors' of memory and continue to run but today, simply put, if the memory is bad it is bad and you would be experiencing other problems.


As for your situation, I feel your pain. I doubt that it is a virus as it would be counter-productive of a virus to do this, unless that was the sole purpose.

How long after booting do you start to notice the memory loss?

I would try booting into safe mode and see if yous till experience the problem. If not, then I would boot normally but turn off all services that I can (keep a GOOD record of what you do) starting with your network, then indexing services.

I wish that I could remember what I typed before but for some reason it took me nearly 10 minutes to get Tom's to accept my post and I lost my original entry. grrr.

 
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Also, check your installation log (windows install/update) to see what happened around the time that this started. Perhaps a video driver update from Microsoft or an upgrade of something?

Do you program? Perhaps one of your apps? Or a beta installation of something? These are the things that I would look at before virus and bad memory. After networking, I'd focus on a graphics driver as my first two guesses.
 
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I haven't updated any drivers or even done windows updates in a long time so that isn't the cause, or shouldn't be. I did complete full scans of malwarebytes avg and norton and absolutely nothing came up on them. Yes this problem persists in safe mode as well I had already checked that. I really feel like it has something to do with svchost because even though it shows only at about 1gb of ram usage, it never skyrocketed like that before.

Also wildstar does not use p2p to seed, I absolutely hate any program that does that and will eradicate it the second the download is done, e.g. pando/akami. And to clarify this happens even if I boot nothing up, it just slowly builds after about 3-4 hours.
 
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That is a nasty problem. Have you monitored total CPU usage of any given process? Again, it probably just shows up as svchost, which when it comes to that tool/program I'm not qualified to even spell it. :(

Since the problem occurs in safe mode without any network drivers installed about the only area left that I can think of is a graphics card is acting up. The amount of data that used by a video card is quite a lot and could account for it.

Again, I'll repeat that I doubt that it is a virus as it doesn't make sense unless the whole lame purpose of the virus was to do this, which is Lame with a capital 'L'. And since it is occuring with no network drivers loaded there is no method of sending information, etc.

At this point I would probably reinstall my box, but you might want to try and uninstall your video drivers and revert back to a basic VGA driver and see if the leakage continues. There is a tool to insure a complete uninstall that others have suggested, it is

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/display_driver_uninstaller_download.html

I haven't tried it. I was having troubles with a MS update to my HD6670 several weeks ago and it was recommended after the ATI clean uninstall tool didn't do what it said it would. :(

But going back to the VGA driver isn't difficult to do and if it isn't the problem it isn't difficult to reinstall/recover from the test.

Good luck and keep up informed of any solution or new developments.

PS. You may want to post this question in another category and get a few more ppl looking at it.
 
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