nvidia nforce3 firewall memory leak?

[raell]

I just built pc with ASUS K8N mobo. I am having a problem with memory leak with nSvcIp.exe process. (windowsXP, SP2) After reading this thread : http://www.hardwareforumz.com/-nSvcIp.e...r-K8N-leaking-memory-ftopict43532.html
I installed lates nvidia chipset drivers but memory leak persists. I installed nvidia firewall and all nvidia drivers (possibly bad idea?). Firewall is turned off. Any suggestions on how to stop memory leak? I was thinking of shutting down these services in windows: ForceWare IP service, ForceWare user log service, and ForceWare Web Interface. Will that help? Any advice appreciated, thanks!

 

[Makaveli]

I run the Nforce3 Firewall on my MSI K8N Neo2 Plat. Never seen this memory leak! I have 1 GB in my system.

 

[JBT]

The NV firewall sucks I wouldn't use it.

 

[dwcal]

Originally posted by: JBT
The NV firewall sucks I wouldn't use it.

:thumbsup: I tried it on mine, and I probably had a worse experience than most others. It slowed my ethernet down to 150KB/s and half my downloads were corrupt files. What a POS. This was an A8N-E running Windows XP 32bit, SP2 with the Windows Firewall disabled.

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: dwcal

Originally posted by: JBT
The NV firewall sucks I wouldn't use it.

:thumbsup: I tried it on mine, and I probably had a worse experience than most others. It slowed my ethernet down to 150KB/s and half my downloads were corrupt files. What a POS. This was an A8N-E running Windows XP 32bit, SP2 with the Windows Firewall disabled.

agreed it would slow my net way down and my latency was insane with both my Epox NF3 mobo and DFI NF3 mobo.

 

[CreativeTom]

Very strange, I didn't think that was possible

 

[raell]

Well, I am not using the nvidia firewall. I have the memory leak even though the firewall is shut off. It makes no difference if firewall is on/off, memory leak at nSvcIp.exe process persists. Can I just uninstall the Nvidia Forceware Network Access Manager in control panel? Any negative consequences to this?, as I am not using nvidia firewall anyway. Or can I just disable these services: ForceWare IP service, ForceWare user log service, and ForceWare Web Interface? Or should I just stop the offending process in task manager until I can find a more permanent solution? Any advice appreciated, thanks!

 

[raell]

Well I disabled ForceWare IP service in services in control panel. This "fixes" the problem as it kills the offending process nSvcIp.exe. I also disabled ForceWare user log service since I figured I don't need the log if I disabled the service the log reports on. There is nothing dependent on these services. No negative consequences so far ( I don't use nvidia firewall, I use zone alarm). Oh well, guess I'll leave it like that until I can find a better fix.

 

[Makaveli]

I've never experienced any of the issues you guys are stating. I'm using a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum board. And the 5.10 Nvidia chipset drivers. Works great. only issue i'm having right now is certain people on my msn list I get really slow transfer speeds. even tho I have all the correct ports open. But I believe it has something to do with the anti hacking features built into the firewall. Still messing with the settings will figure it out. I wouldn't go back to using a Software firewall over this. It's much better and not using CPU Cycles!!

 

[walkure]

I have an Asus A8N-SLI mobo, nForce4 drivers, latest versions AFAIK. I installed nVidia firewall from the mobo CD and was using it for a couple weeks. I also noticed huge memory leaks from nsvcIP.exe. When I start Windows, the process takes maybe around 10MB of memory. I have had the computer on for about a week now, and it is up to 100MB. And this was after DISABLING nVidia firewall! I'm currently only using Windows firewall since I suspected nVidia of not only memory leaks, but also slow bandwidth. I'm still not sure if it really affected my bandwidth or not (cable modem).

Anyway, if you are not using the firewall, why not uninstall it completely? I will probably do that soon.

 

[Makaveli]

I've been watching that Nsvcip.exe file on my boot it only takes 3.9mb and stays that way. i'm gonna leave the computer on a couple nights and see if it takes more. As for slow bandwidth never noticed anything. I play CS S my pings are always excellent thru the firewall.

 

[raell]

Anyway, if you are not using the firewall, why not uninstall it completely? I will probably do that soon.

I was thinking of uninstalling nvidia firewall as well. Any potential negative consequences to this? Other than not being able to use the firewall, obviously.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Who is going to use the Nvidia firewall, when they have cheap routers that can do the job much better?

 

[Makaveli]

Why buy a router when I only have one computer hooked up, and the Nvidia firewall came with my board for free!

 

[REMF]

The NV firewall sucks I wouldn't use it.

disagreed.

i use the firewall with no problems.

 

[Hopy]

find solution - restart the service from Service menu :0 and its ok