I am helping someone with this nsi service memory leak as well, and I just noticed a new hotfix published 7 days ago (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2950358). Has anyone tried this?
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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Anonymous
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2014-05-02T09:32:10+00:00 I've installed the hotfix. I'll report back as soon as I know if it has helped or not.
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After 2 days my svchost.exe is at 16,184 K. It seems like it might be increasing a bit slower. I will have to see how it does after a week or so.
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Anonymous
2014-05-02T02:40:22+00:00 Installed hotfix and upgraded to IE11. So far NSI is only at 3,846 K and holding steady for 24 hours.
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Anonymous
2014-05-01T02:13:10+00:00 This may be a fix?! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2847346
I may just give it a try.
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Anonymous
2014-04-27T20:33:18+00:00 I gave updating from IE9 to IE11 a try too. With IE9 my svchost.exe is usually around 45 MB after 3 weeks, which isn't too bad. I'm not sure if it's a fluke yet but after 7 days of uptime with IE11 my svchost.exe is at 29 MB. That's a pretty huge improvement considering how high it would get really fast before. I still have 2 new IE11 updates to get, which I'm worried they will make it worse or restarting my computer alone will just make it go back to the way it was.
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Nevermind. It seems talking about it reminded it that it's broken. A few hours after I posted this it just started increasing really fast. It was very odd that it increased slowly for 7 days though.