Any System Monitor Gadgets that DON'T have a memory leak?

Gromit1710 · 23 Oct 2011

Yeah, all gadgets run under sidebar.exe in the taskmanager. For each one you add, it gets bigger. When I first noticed the memory leak, I went through and closed all of the gadgets that were running.

Sidebar.exe will vanish from your Task manager and then you can start one gadget at a time, watching the ram to see if that gadget continuously makes the sidebar.exe's RAM get bigger and bigger.

profdlp · 23 Oct 2011

I did not know that about the sidebar; I seem to recall having to install it separately, though that may have been during the beta period.

Gromit1710 · 28 Oct 2011

A Guy said:

Was under the impression all gadgets used sidebar.exe, mine do. A Guy

As far as I know, this is correct. All the gadgets run under the sidebar.exe process. The more you run, the larger the process is.

Bongo · 28 Oct 2011

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Here is one skin I have that I think has what you're looking.
Jerry