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| | Vista session manager eat all memory In the last times my Dell laptop with Vista Enterprise, few minutes after booting, freeze and the only way to exit from this situation is via HW switch-off (few seconds on the power button). It does not happen all the times but about 25% of switch on. Investigating the problem with Process Explorer I discovered that in those situations the windows session manager smss.exe (one of the first process in the list) keep the cpu for about 80% and start "consuming" memory ( I have 2 GB) untill all the memory is gone (in a couple of minutes) and the computer become unusable. I tryed to kill as many process as possible but noting changed. The only "correlation" I found is that if I wait for few seconds before inserting the login password the problem do not arise but I'm not really sure of that. Is there anybody who can help me? |
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| | Re: Vista session manager eat all memory Restart your computer, then download and install the following new updates: An update is available that improves the compatibility and reliability of Windows Vista: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194 An update is available that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979 -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Riccardo" wrote: In the last times my Dell laptop with Vista Enterprise, few minutes after booting, freeze and the only way to exit from this situation is via HW switch-off (few seconds on the power button). It does not happen all the times but about 25% of switch on. Investigating the problem with Process Explorer I discovered that in those situations the windows session manager smss.exe (one of the first process in the list) keep the cpu for about 80% and start "consuming" memory ( I have 2 GB) untill all the memory is gone (in a couple of minutes) and the computer become unusable. I tryed to kill as many process as possible but noting changed. The only "correlation" I found is that if I wait for few seconds before inserting the login password the problem do not arise but I'm not really sure of that. Is there anybody who can help me? |
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| | Re: Vista session manager eat all memory Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote: > Restart your computer, then download and install the > following new updates: > > An update is available that improves the compatibility > and reliability of Windows Vista: > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194 > > An update is available that improves the performance > and reliability of Windows Vista: > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979 With all due respect, I've seen zero performance increases on systems we've installed these patches on (on behalf of customers who requested updates ot be installed in addition to other work.) And these don't seem to have anything to do with the OP's problem. I haven't acutlaly this particular issue (although I've seen many others.) -saran |
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| | Re: Vista session manager eat all memory Thank you for the suggestions and warning. I've just installed the two patches and of course I need some statistic in order to realize if the problem is solved. I'll post here if the boot up problem should arise again. "Saran" <none@nospam> wrote in message news:e7BKLeC4HHA.5796@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote: >> Restart your computer, then download and install the >> following new updates: >> >> An update is available that improves the compatibility >> and reliability of Windows Vista: >> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194 >> >> An update is available that improves the performance >> and reliability of Windows Vista: >> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979 > > With all due respect, I've seen zero performance increases on systems > we've installed these patches on (on behalf of customers who requested > updates ot be installed in addition to other work.) And these don't seem > to have anything to do with the OP's problem. I haven't acutlaly this > particular issue (although I've seen many others.) > > -saran > |
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