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February 01, 1999 Resource Kit Tools for Diagnosing and Monitoring Memory Leaks A Web Exclusive from Windows IT Pro Paula Sharick Feature InstantDoc #4763 Windows IT Pro	Email this Article Printer Friendly Reader Comments Digg This Del.icio.us RSS
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Main Article Finding and Fixing NT Memory Leaks

Clearmem (clearmem.exe)—Forces pages out of physical memory and reduces the size of running processes’ working sets to a minimum. When you run this tool, the system pauses because of excessive high-priority activity associated with trimming the working sets. To run this tool, your paging file must be at least as large as physical memory. (Windows NT might register a lack of virtual memory, but the utility will still run.)
LeakyApp (leakyapp.exe)—Allocates virtual memory continuously until the system runs out of memory. This tool lets you observe and record component and application performance in a system running with minimum available memory.
Page Fault Monitor (PFMON—pfmon.exe)—Monitors the hard and soft page faults an application generates and displays them in realtime.
Performance Meter (perfmtr.exe)—Provides a systemwide summary of paged and nonpaged pool statistics if you type p at the command prompt.
Process Monitor (PMON—pmon.exe)—Displays a summary of memory statistics for all NT processes and updates the summary continuously until you kill the command or close the console window.
Process Status (PSTAT—pstat.exe)—Displays the status of running processes and threads.

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Reader Comments

Informative and helpful. Thankyou.

John Lyons May 24, 2000

Cold kickin' it with the memory!

Jeff Atwood July 09, 2001

please help me with these memory leaks

everlene smith December 28, 2003

I used win 98 for a long time but last month the computer crash 3 times. one of my friend said win98 is too old and he recommend to instal win2000(profession) and I did. Second friend said today, I have memory leaks and that is the reason for the crash and win 2000 will crash soon. Do you hear about leaking memories and if so will you be kind enough to help me.

F. Fred February 13, 2004

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