svhost.exe in win xp causes a memory leak when interacting with certain programs. With Mcaffee background virus scan turned on, and windows task manager open, I can watch svhost.exe's memory leakage just like I used to be able to watch the needle on the gas gage of my International Scout rapidly drop toward the "E" end during city driving. During a short period, the McAffee program could easily eat up 350 MB's of memory. I tried a couple of memory managers, but neither could recoup the memory being held by the svhost.exe program. But without the McAffee virus background scan running--svhost.exe is hovering at a steady 30 MB of memory usage.
MJ seems to do this too--after playing music for a while, the music gets slower and slower. I don't know whether MJ frees up the memory when it closes--I'll have to check it out. Does MJ use svhost.exe? If so, would running the Media Scheduler continually lead to a memory drain?
MS Word XP has the same problem but to a lesser degree. It leaked 10 MB of memory doing a spell check of the first paragraph (By leaked, I mean that the amound of memory being tied up by the program jumped 10 MB doing 1 task, and that 10 MB wasn't released when the task was completed, and in fact wasn't freed until the program was closed, so that the resources being tied up are cumulative while the program remain open.). IE 6 was at 12 MB of usage when I looked 2-3 minutes ago, but is now up to 13 mb while simply lurking in the background, slowly dripping droplets of memory, and doing nothing as I type this. When I finished that sentence IE was tying up 14.8 MB. Word does free up the memory when it closes, as does IE. But the problem is--who wants to keep starting/stopping programs to free some memory?
I'm not sure if the memory recorded in task manager is system memory or whatever, or how that affects MJ's performance.
Media Jukebox PLUS 8.0.211
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1794 MHz MMX
Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 340 MB
OS: Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 (Build 2600)
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2600.0000
ComCtl32.dll: 6.00.2600.0000
Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2600.0000
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2600.0000
wnaspi32.dll: 4.01 (978) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-1996 Adaptec, Inc.
Aspi32.sys: 4.01 (978)