Hamachi was not the problem. Although turning it off helped for a while NSI continues to pig memory.
nsi memory leaks fixed yet?
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Does anyone know if there is a fix for nsi service eating up memory yet?I'm really getting tired of having it eat up to 3 gbs or ram all the time.I have a dump file if the need arises.
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2013-08-23T11:22:16+00:00 I have two machines (windows 7 x64) with the same problem. The network adapter is a Broadcom NetExtreme, so the issue seems to exits with intel, realtek and broadcom.
Updating the driver did not help.
No maleware was found.
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Anonymous
2013-09-10T19:15:27+00:00 I have two machines (windows 7 x64) with the same problem. The network adapter is a Broadcom NetExtreme, so the issue seems to exits with intel, realtek and broadcom.
Updating the driver did not help.
No maleware was found.
I've run more than a dozen malware/virus scans, offline, boot from USB, etc. and I have replaced the NIC. I removed the old drivers completely and reinstalled the new drivers forthe Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter. No luck! It seems to be worse the ever. NSI keeps consuming memory until I restart it or it brings my system to its knees.
Anyone have any ideas?
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2013-09-16T18:15:41+00:00 I have two machines (windows 7 x64) with the same problem. The network adapter is a Broadcom NetExtreme, so the issue seems to exits with intel, realtek and broadcom.
Updating the driver did not help.
No maleware was found.
I've run more than a dozen malware/virus scans, offline, boot from USB, etc. and I have replaced the NIC. I removed the old drivers completely and reinstalled the new drivers forthe Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter. No luck! It seems to be worse the ever. NSI keeps consuming memory until I restart it or it brings my system to its knees.
Anyone have any ideas?
I'm running Windows 7 64bit.
I've done a number of malware scans, re-installed the network adapters, checked for any uninstalled relevant Windows Updates and yet NSI is consuming about 2.4GB over time.
I know this doesn't help anyone else but at least it raises awareness that there are more people suffering from the same issue.
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Anonymous
2013-09-26T13:20:40+00:00 I'll chime in with the fact that I'm experiencing this problem as well. It takes longer for me to really experience the problem since my workstation has 24G of memory (I run a bunch of VMs). Right now I'm using 22.5G (and growing) and the svchost with a working set of 12.5 G has the NSI service in it.
The other astounding thing is that the process has... are you ready?... 185,762 HANDLES open, incrementing about one every 10 sec.