XP Memory drain?

[Krizalid]

I seem to be having a problem with XP where sometimes (according to task manager) all my physical memory is drained down to something like 15K left for about 10 or so seconds and then after awhile the memory is freed back up and everything is back to normal.

Does anyone know what is causing this temporary memory drain?

Update: Ok I found an example of when this happens. If for example I right click and select properties on say a 400 MB video file in the Windows CD Burning folder, the properties window takes forever to popup and the free memory (according to task manager) decreases fast until there is literally 0 physical memory left.

 

[awsheat]

I've had the same thing happen with a couple apps.. one is explorer exe when trying to view properties on big divx file and another was running norton 2002 antivirus in regular protect mode.. never found a fix just worked around it

 

[jmitchell]

do you both have p3 processors? There is an update at the windows update for xp users with p3's. As I understand this fixes multiple problems including several memory leaks.

 

[TravisW111]

What pentium 3 update? I went to windowsupdates and there was only a service pack that fixes some security leaks and some drivers for hardware. I didn't see anything about a pentium 3 fix

 

[awsheat]

Yes i tried the pentium3 patch.. it did nothing..

This appears to be some sort of issue with XP trying to recognize an avi file that is incomplete.. since the file is incomplete and cant be opened, it freaks XP out if you try to check the properties of it.. what i do to work around this is just choose to show properties of files in my folders so i can see how big an avi is so i dont have to view properties by right clicking or trying to open it.. its really no big deal cuz the only time i do this is to double check a freshly downloaded avi to see if i got it all..

the other memory leak i got was with norton 2002 running in protect mode.. no fix for that yet.. but norton is pretty gay anyway.. i just run psygate firewall for protectioin

 

[zephyrprime]

I think I recall someone posting about this problem before. There is a fix I believe. Search the archives here at anand.

 

[eGadget]

Never mind.