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Vista Memory Leak?
Blog I'm wondering if anyone else has seen anything that looks like a memory leak in Vista? So, before I break out the more serious tools, does anyone know about Vista itself, or any of the standard system processes, having a memory leak?
[April 17, 2008, 13:39]
How To Detect A Memory Leak By Using System Performance Monitor In Windows 2000
White Papers This presentation explains how to detect memory leaks using System Performance Monitor in Microsoft Windows 2000.
[July 23, 2007, 0:00]
Microsoft Software Implicated In Air Traffic Shutdown
Talkback A unix program with a memory leak would probably eventually crash, too. If a program has a memory leak, any decent OS, and specially one in a CRITICAL environment should stop that program, while others continue running, and the whole system won't...
[September 22, 2004, 21:33]
Firefox 1.5 'smashes' 1.0 Download Stats
Talkback Memory leak or something? Try surfing for a while and You'll notice the amount of memory which it takes. I've been using this for a while now. It's fast, usable, easy to work with and works almost as it should.almost.
[December 3, 2005, 11:24]
Tablet PC Flaw Patched At Last
News On Tuesday, Microsoft posted a patch to its Web site designed to prevent the problem, known as a memory leak. Microsoft acknowledged the memory leak issue in February and said then it was hoping a fix would be available soon.
[July 7, 2005, 9:15]
Microsoft Software Implicated In Air Traffic Shutdown
Talkback A unix program with a memory leak would probably eventually crash, too. This story implies that this was a problem caused by a Microsoft System. But it sounds like a bug in the application running on the system, which could happen on any system.
[September 18, 2004, 0:36]
Sophos Case Study: Slumberland
White Papers Some of the problems faced included a memory leak and poor overall performance characteristics. Slumberland is a leading furniture, mattress and accessories retailer. Slumberland began reviewing replacement options when the organization's previous...
[June 10, 2005, 0:00]
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Common Problems And Resolutions
White Papers We will review some common issues related to setup (installation best practices as well as things to avoid), common connectivity issues, how to deal with and be prepared for disaster recovery (backup and restore, log shipping), and memory...
[October 4, 2003, 0:00]
Longhorn And The Linux Long-game
Talkback It's the famous memory leak that does the trick. I just have to say this: linux saved my computer. With it on it can run for days, i have never seen it crash. With win98 it crashes within a night's sleep.
[June 23, 2005, 10:05]
Default Folder X
Downloads Version 4.0.3 corrects a possible memory leak which affected many Carbon applications, including Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Quark Xpress, Filemaker, Firefox, and iTunes. By enhancing the Open and Save dialog boxes on your Macintosh...
[April 28, 2008, 12:13]
First Security Scare Hits Next-generation Internet
News The vulnerability is caused by what is called a "memory leak," which an attacker could exploit to cause a denial-of-service attack. These memory leaks occur when IPv6 packets are sent in such an order that they take up more memory than usual.
[July 5, 2004, 8:55]
Vista Vs. XP: The Final Retreat
Blog Memory leak. When I boot Vista, the memory meter shows 38% memory in use (of a total of 3 GB). If I use the laptop without rebooting for a day or two, the memory use slowly creeps up to the 60-70% range.
[April 24, 2008, 20:19]
Nvidia's GeForce4: First Tests
News Prolink GeForce4 graphics card details leak out GeForce4 specs leak online Thurs 17 Jan: Details show that the next-generation graphics cards will heat up the gaming arena with souped-up processing and memory speeds
[February 6, 2002, 11:22]
What .Net Actually Means For CIOs
News Unless they correctly release these resources when they're finished using them, though, the resulting inconsistency between the Windows environment and the underlying hardware environment is almost certain to cause a crash, memory leak, or other...
[February 5, 2003, 14:34]
IBM Thinks Big About Nanotechnology
News Nanotechnology may be used to make chemical leak detectors or serve as the cache memory on a microprocessor. For instance, memory constructed out of a mesh of nano wires would work correctly, but designers wouldn't be able to trace the exact path...
[May 16, 2002, 10:07]
Tackling The Threat From Portable Storage Devices
News A security-conscious workforce will be less likely to unwittingly leak sensitive information, by misplacing a storage device, for instance. They also include disk-based MP3 players, such as Apple's iPod, and digital cameras with smart media cards...
[July 5, 2004, 17:10]
Microsoft Releases Vista Updates
News The patch also addresses problems with file transfer "estimated time remaining" speeds, offline file corruption during synchronisation to a server, and memory-leak and management problems. Microsoft has released two updates for Windows Vista.
[August 9, 2007, 10:36]
Borland Retools JBuilder 8
News The new version includes automatic memory leak detection, which lets developers more quickly solve code performance problems, Borland said. Borland Software, which leads the market for Java development tools, on Monday announced a new version of...
[November 5, 2002, 8:09]
Exploit-selling Site Will Boost Security, Say Founders
News The site currently holds a remote buffer overflow in Yahoo Messenger, a Linux kernel memory leak, an SQL injection flaw in MKPortal and a SquirrelMail problem. An eBay-like auction site that sells vulnerabilities will improve security by ensuring...
[July 6, 2007, 13:55]
Email Trails Lead To DRM
Talkback Preventing the leak of confidential data out of organisations via software means such as email, P2P, IM, or hardware - floppy, CD and now USB memory devices is a major challenge to security and IT management.
[April 22, 2004, 15:22]
