I seem to be having a memory leak issue with 2012. I recently created our deployment for C3D 2012 and installed it on my computer (i7, 8gig, win7pro 64bit). I left my installation of 2011 on my machine. It seemed to work just fine. However, what I didn't realize at first but I am a experiencing a memory leak (when I first startup my computer it has almost 6 gig free and within a couple of hours all 8 gig are being used and the computer barely functions). It seemed to be running the hard drive full time but I couldn't find any process or service responsible for it.
I have tried unintstalling and reinstalling 2012.....no solution. I unstalled the Content libary service, no solution. I uninstalled Raster no solution.
I then tried shutting down or uninstalling various other programs and services, no luck.
What finially worked this morning was uninstalling all of 2012 and leaving just 2011 on. Now everything is fine, eacept no 2012 installed.
Any suggestions or thoughts?
Thanks
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Hi,
>> within a couple of hours all 8 gig are being used
by what program? Memory can't get stolen, you should see in the Windows taskmanager which process reserves the memory (activate all columns, especially the memory ones). Make sure to see all processes, not just the ones from your current user.
I have installed AutoCAD 2012, Map3D 2012, Civil3D 2012, Inventor 2012, 3DS MaxDesign 2012 on Win7x64 (and also other products from Autodesk back to version 2010), additionaly office-, databaseserver- and developer-software. And I don't have the problem you describe. I guess that thousands of users have AutoCAD 2012 (or 2012-based) products now on Win7x64 and we would have heard such situations here in the forum (I haven't read one like yours, yet).
So I wouldn't bet 1 cent to make AutoCAD or Civil2012 to the products found guilty.
Of course there may be a combination of products you have installed together with Civil3D 2012, but for that (and to get useful answers) a list of software you have installed would be great.
Also some additional questions:
- alfred -
Thanks for the reply,
I did open taskmanager and really couldn't figure out where all the memory had gone. It didn't add up. Looking at the list of services and processes nothing seemed to be much different from what I have seen before. I have been dealing with this for several days, never getting it resolved until I uninstalled both 2012 Raster and 2012 C3D this morning.
Also some additional questions:
Yes, everything is current and updated.
Other than the service pack/update for 2012C3d, no recent updates for any other programs. However, when I last uninstalled 2012 and reinstalled 2012, I did not reinstall the service pack.
I am the only user other than the administrator account and no I didn't try that.
I thought about trying this but didn't do it before I uninstalled 2012 C3d this morning.
Yes, I started the computer without running any programs (except openning TaskManager) and the memory leak still occurred. I shut down windows defender to see if that was the issue (as if it were trying to scan the hard drive). What was strange is that no applications were listed on TaskManager and none of the processes listed were using up the memory or showing significant memory use growth. I also used MSCONFIG to disable all startup programs. I used MSCONFIG to shut down pretty much all services except video, dell or Microsoft related.
All I know is for the last several hours my computer has worked just fine since uninstalling 2012. Its the first time in a week or longer that I can say this.
Thanks Tony
Hi,
>> I did open taskmanager and really couldn't figure out where all the memory had gone
You see all processes - not just the ones from the current user (you have a checkbox near the bottom border of the taskmanager therefor)?
I can't beleive that the sum of amount of memory of the single processes is very different to what you see in the other tab with the graphical view (so I imagine you see the difference?).
If you don't get the values you need from the Windows taskmanager try the ProcessExplorer from >>>here<<<.
I understand that as your system seems now to be running fine, you won't try to install C3D 2012 now. But getting the info with "other user" and "admin-user" may be a step to isolate the problem, also the list of software may be important.
- alfred -
Well in the interest of full disclosure. I reinstalled C3d2012 and found and resolved the memory leak issue. Checking the all user box on Task Manager revealed that WDFME.EXE was sucking all of the available ram out of my system. It started doing it as soon as the install for C3d got going. WDFME is one of the files for Western Digital's SmartWare program I use to backup my computer/laptop on a portable drive.......no longer. Killing that process tree made my computer (and its user very happy).
I never liked the SmartWare software and now I have more reason to hate it.
Thanksfor the help......(I didn't think I needed to check the all user box since I was the only user and I was already seeing some SYSTEM applications running. WDFME was running under the SYSTEM user but not showing up on the list without the all user box being checked).
- Tony
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