Re: how to interpret poolmon output, 'Proc' tag.

I would look for two things in the Task Manager:
a) If there was a process called "Proc";
b) Which process keeps increasing its "Memory Usage".

"Samuel Stanojevic" <SamuelStanojevic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hi Pegasus,

I assume you mean that I should be looking at the 'NP Pool' column of the
Task Manager and see if any process has a high value. I have tried that,
but
the highest value I've found for any given process is 200 Kb, and the
totals
for all processes do not top the 1 Mb. Meanwhile poolmon is showing that
the
'Proc' tag is leaking in the tens of Megabytes.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,
Sam

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"Samuel Stanojevic" <Samuel Stanojevic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in
message news:83A6F681-2785-4E9E-BAEB-1B3654061BA5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I'm running Windows XP Professional SP2, up-to-date with Windows
Updates.

I've recently noticed that my non-paged kernel memory is leaking at a
steady
pace of 10Mb+/day. If I don't reboot my machine every few days, it
eventually
and inevitably grinds to a halt, forcing me to reboot it.

By searching on the web, I realized I needed to run poolmon.exe to
debug
the
leak, which I did. The output of poolmon clearly shows that the leaking
tag
is 'Proc'. But what is 'Proc'? I have no idea.

Can someone please explain to me what the 'Proc' tag means, and how I
can
use that information to track down the cause of the leak?

Thanks!
Sam

The Windows Task Manager might tell you.





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