WinME resources evaporating What the ....

[elroy]

I recently re-installed all the software on one of my machines. Now I'm having problems with the resources dropping to 0% free in 1 or 2 hours of use. Prior to the re-install it always ran great. Any ideas? [Please skip the WinME bashing] System specs below.
Biostar M7VKG board, latest bios
1.4 T-bird
512mb PC133 sdram
onboard 32mb S3 video, latest drivers
160gb Maxtor
Windows ME w/all updates
Netscape 7.1
Norton AV 2003
MS Office 97

Task Box displays the following:
Explorer
CCapp
onetouchman [scanner]
winhlp32 [why is this here?]
winmgmt [why is this here?]
Rnathchk
Bcresident [encryption program]
systray
Nprotect [Norton AV]
e_sicn03 [Epson printer]
winampa [Winamp]

[Steve R Jones]

Try ending task on each one of those one at a time unitil you find the culprit that leaking mem.... Unless you scan all the time every day there is any sense in having the scanner load up.

[elroy]

The problem seems to occur while running Netscape. Prior to the re-install of everything I used Netscape 6.2 but since the re-install I've gone to version 7.1. All of these other items running were here previously and didn't cause any problem. I just found an article on the web that talks about memory leaks in Netscape caused by the memory cache being set to high. Anyone have experience with this problem?
http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/ns71resrcleak.html

winhlp32 - winhlp32.exe - Process Information
Process File: winhlp32 or winhlp32.exe
Process Name: Windows Help
Description: The Windows Help File viewer is used to open helpfiles and documentation included with many Windows programs
Common Errors: N/A
System Process: No

http://www.liutilities.com/products/...rary/winhlp32/


Process File: winmgmt or winmgmt.exe
Process Name: Windows Management Service
Description: The Windows Management Service handles requests for Windows Management Instrumentation data (WMI) from client applications
Common Errors: N/A
System Process: Yes

http://www.liutilities.com/products/...brary/winmgmt/

what program are you using to monitor your recsources?

did you turn off winme crappy restore option?

[elroy]

I believe I've found the solution to my problem. It is indeed a severe memory leak in Netscape 7.1 that also affects Mozilla 1.3 and 1.4. It seems the default installation of Netscape sets the programs memory cache to high, causing the leak. To correct the leak you need to edit the file user.js located in C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\profilename\xxxxxxxx.slt

Add the following line to this file with a text editor and save.
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 2048);