sp3 fixes memory leak
I run Windows XP in a Vmware Server VM on an Ubuntu workstation in my workplace cubicle. Every Monday when I come in I routinely reboot the XP machine in order to free up memory, which invariably will have crept up to > 1G used after a week of running time. I’m not sure if the leak is caused by my six instances of perfmon which I use to monitor server resource utilization, or by some other app which I use every day* — I never have been able to pinpoint the culprit, and learned to live with the workaround of weekly reboots. This is not a bad thing for a Windows machine, according to many IT folks.
So anyway I installed SP3 for XP a couple of weeks ago, and lo and behold (sic) — the most amazing unexpected thing resulted — the memory leak disappeared! I have now been running the same instance of XP for 11 days and memory utilization is only 667M.
Have to congratulate Microsoft on this quiet little bug fix. (Although how long did customers wait between the release of SP2 and SP3?)
* Groupwise, AD Users & Computers, cmd, errlook, taskmgr, SQL Management Studio