[Joce3432]

After a couple of days running I have to restart eMule because it uses huge amounts of memory. If I leave it alone without a restart I eventually get "out of virtual memory"...

This post has been edited by Joce3432: 22 August 2005 - 01:19 AM

[Esel4711]

Check your firewall settings (and don't tell me you're using ZoneAlarm)...

[Joce3432]

Esel4711, on Aug 21 2005, 06:28 AM, said:

Check your firewall settings (and don't tell me you're using ZoneAlarm)...

I'm using Windows XP firewall...


Why should a firewall cause a memory leak?

[mnmr]

I'm having the same problem. Caught 0.46c using in excess of 1G memory; takes it about an hour to reach 200mb, so within a day it has completely exhausted ressources and ceases to function properly..

I'm on XP with SP2, NVidia firewall (as part of the nForce4 chipset) and McAfee virus scan. I've disabled the virus scanner (as we speak) and will check if that helps. Disabling the firewall shouldn't be able to affect eMule unless it does stuff I wouldn't want it to anyway.

I should note that the problem has become increasingly visible after I've upped the file cache from it's minimum value. eMule seemed to be trashing my disks (to the point where a few have been ruined by its constant scribbling to the drive), so reducing the buffers don't seem like a viable option either..

I ran with 0.46b for quite a while without problems, but that was on another PC.

This post has been edited by mnmr: 07 October 2005 - 12:13 AM

[Esel4711]

If memory serves me right NVidea firewall is very BUGGY. Feel free to do a board-search...

[moloko+]

Who said anything about a memory leak? What does one look like?

mnmr, on Oct 7 2005, 11:11 AM, said:

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I should note that the problem has become increasingly visible after I've upped the file cache from it's minimum value.
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you're efficiently caching more memory for the firewall to overflow into.

Your firewalls don't keep up with eMules net traffic. Sort of like a traffic bottleneck.

The backlog of process data accumulates, the data being swapped for 'later' processing, and then "out of virtual memory" errors.

Hence a restart.

[mnmr]

As it turns out, it does indeed look like this was the problem. I've disabled the firewall (in favor of using a dedicated Linux box for the job), and eMule is now running smoothly again.

Memory consumption has been rising steadily though (currently it's using 118mb).. I'll keep it alive for a week and check whether the problem is still there (albeit on a much smaller scale).

Funny thing, with nVidia firewall the "services.exe" service ran up to 110mb, whereas it now stays at 4mb.. good indication that the firewall was keeping stuff around that it shouldn't, methinks (in case anyone else can use this to check of their firewall is also misbehaving).

[mnmr]

mnmr, on Oct 8 2005, 03:01 PM, said:

Memory consumption has been rising steadily though (currently it's using 118mb).. I'll keep it alive for a week and check whether the problem is still there (albeit on a much smaller scale).

There's definately still a leak in there! Now it's up to 140mb, so it just keeps rising, even if it now doing so at a more moderate pace.

Let me know if there's anything I can do from a users perspective to help track down the source of the leak..

[greenfinger]

sorry to but into your post but just a thought if we are having probs with the fire wall backing up stuff now im on ntl and iv had a letter today that tells me im being upgraded to 10 meg before the end on the year what sort of memory leaks will we get then when emule is going at that speed? i have got a slow memory leek at the moment just a thought for the future any body got any thought on the subject
thank you

This post has been edited by greenfinger: 14 October 2005 - 12:03 AM