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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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After 50 hours of uptime my svchost.exe is 14, 774K. Still higher than normal, but seems fairly stable. I'll also be trying IE11 and KB2888049 (IE11 network update) soon. I hope this will somehow work, but I'm not holding my breath. I may just use Firefox as my default browser since IE9 is a bit outdated these days.
If you uninstall IE10 and all updates, the next time you run MS UPDATE, it will only give you IE11 as an install option.
Also, since I have LEFT ALL IE versions off, leaving FireFox as default browser, Chrome as secondary, with an up time of 9 days, NO NSI MEMORY LEAK ISSUE. Next step will be to install IE11, and see if the leak comes back.
I do not have the WIFI miniport adapter driver either, as my desktop is hardwired to my router, and have NO WIFI card in my desktop, so that driver is a non issue for me.
Will update after a few days of IE11 installed, and advise as to any leak found.
Keep reporting what you find guys, working together, we should eliminate all possibilities, and find the common denominator.
Jasthrus
It might be a coincidence at some point , I don't know, before my driver update moves, I tried to restart svchost.exe via Process Explorer without success.
So far so good, the most consuming svchost.exe is not eating beyond 200 MR RAM out of my 8 GB I put instead of 4 GB initially on my work laptop. Hopefully it lasts.
That's interesting. For some reason I don't have Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter. But so far from what I've found for me is having all updates and IE9 installed there is no memory leak issue. It was as soon as I installed IE10 and the prerequisite platform update (KB2670838) that svchost.exe started eating up ram again. It was at 147 MB(147, 776K) after 24 hours.
I've uninstalled IE10 and after 24 hours the svchost.exe is at 13 MB(13, 664K). Which is still slightly odd since normally it stays around 8.5 MB. I'm not sure if it still has a slight memory leak problem or if it will stay there. I'll have to see what it does over the next few days.
I'm wondering if you can install IE11 without installing IE10 and if it has the same issue.
I faced the same issue lately and reading your posts helped me and put me on the right track somehow.
What I did and seemed to work for me so far is to update one by one all the Drivers of the Network Adapters in the Device Manager > Network adapters section. The only one that had update and seems to make the RAM dropped was Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter!
Hope it will help you as well.
