Re: Memory Leak problems.

Karl Hamson ( (no email) )
Fri, 29 May 1998 17:07:36 +0000

> Ok here is the scenario.
> I have for a few months now been battling one of our servers leaking memory.
> I have gone through and docuemented the problem what I think to be pretty
> thouroughly. There is 128MB of Physical RAM in the machine and counting
> virtual memory a total of around 187MB of memory. Right after a reboot
> there is an approximate usage of about 40MB of memory when you go into task
> manager. Within a week the Server runs out of memory and it is necessary
> to reboot. I have the following running on my machine:
> IMail latest version.
> MetaInfo DNS latest version.
> IIS3.0 with the Web and FTP service running.
>
> The server also serves as the PDC on our network and a secondary DNS server.
> Has anyone heard of any sort of problems with this configuration. This
> just started happening a few months ago and there really was no documented
> change that I can remember in the system config. Any help or advice would
> be much appreciated. Thanks,
>
We had similar problems, although not with the configuration you have.
The culpret in our case was Netscape Navigator, after removing the
broweser we've had no problems.
Karl Hamson / khamson@sage.net / Sage Networks Inc.