Memory Leak Troubleshooting

Memory Leak troubleshooting is something which most of them faces is it’s hard to figure it out. I’ll give few easy steps to find out which Driver, Process, thread or Handle is causing Memory leak.

Before going into that topic I’ll give you some basics few things that you need to know before starting troubleshooting.

There a few types of Leaks

• Physical Memory Leak
• Virtual Memory Leak
• Paged and Nonpaged Pool
• Process and Threads
• Handles

Fortunately Mark Russinovich has written few great article which I’m going to link to will help you fix the Memory Leak issues



Physical Memory : Check this article to know how to troubleshoot Physical Memory Leak issues Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Virtual Memory Leak : Check this article to know how to troubleshoot Virtual Memory Leak issues Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Paged and Nonpaged Pool : Check this article to know how to troubleshoot Paged and Nonpaged Pool leaks Pushing the Limits of Windows: Paged and Nonpaged Pool - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Process and Threads : Check this article to know how to troubleshoot Processes and threadsLeak issues Pushing the Limits of Windows: Processes and Threads - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Handles : Check this article to know how to troubleshoot Handles Leak issues Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs


Memory Leak Troubleshooting !! « Captain Debugger

Excellent info links


But what about the memory leak I am having from my photographic memory since we switched to digital

Great info; thanks, Captain.

Thanks Doc ! And i'm sure whether we can fix photographic memory leak. Maybe this can fix it



Thanks Carl !