Losing Memory

[otown]

Between the times I Cold Boot I seem to accumulate iexplore.exe *32 processes. Right now I have 15, 14 are 8 megs each and one is 317 megs. The longer I don't restart the more of these processes I get and the more memory I lose.

Any idea whats going on here and how I can fix the problem. I'm running 32 bit IE7 (I tried IE8 but it caused some problems so I went back to 7, and no 64 bit Flash), and 64 bit Vista SP2.

 

[Endrane]

Are you sure you aren't downloading anything, or on a malicious site? If not, run it without add-ons, they could be accessing your computer. If even that doesn't work, just get Mozilla Firefox, IT ROCKS!

 

[smarteyeball]

Between the times I Cold Boot I seem to accumulate iexplore.exe *32 processes. Right now I have 15, 14 are 8 megs each and one is 317 megs. The longer I don't restart the more of these processes I get and the more memory I lose.

How many tabs/windows do you have open?

Do they disappear when you close internet explorer?

 

[whs]

Unless your RAM Dimms fall out of the box, you are not loosing any memory. I have 7 iexplore.exes running right now and I have only 2 IE instances running - nothing unusual.

 

[CrucialHoax]

iexplorer.exe*32 is internet explorer. Internet explorer works by separating each tab as a different process to limit crashing and to save sites that your currently browsing. So if you have a lot of tabs open your going to see a lot of those processes.

 

[otown]

I just had IE7 open with 4 tabs and there was 15 instances of the process. I closed IE7 and there was 14 instances. I opened it again with one tab and we're back to 15. If I open 3 more tabs the process count stays at 15.

 

[JimJoe]

Sounds like there is another process running the IE instances. Otherwise you would get results like the other posters in this thread.

Could be data miner cookies conecting to advert servers reporting (generically) on what sites you look at.

For an instance.

If 50 people in your area go to sears or cbs news, or McDonalds, etc. sites, a data miner cookie could be placed on their hard drives to show what adverts were there when they viewed those sites.

Then those data miner cookies connect to the nearest advert tracking server. Too many of these can bog down a computer. One of my relatives told me about their computer being slow... I found over 300 of these things on there.

I used ad-aware to get rid of them. That computer now rapidly boots up. I didn't do anything else to it.

Anyways, the advert server then has a database that reports 50 people in your area looked at a web sites when a particular advert was showing.

What does that mean ? Bulk junk mail. Coupons and adverts for those products will be added to the junk mail fliers you get in your area. I get junk snail mail every week. Hopefully your receipt of them isn't that often.

Sorry for the wandering, I'm on anti-bioitics for a soon to be done root canal.

But I think you should check for data miner cookies.

 

[whs]

I think what happens is that superfetch keeps instances of iexplore around from earlier use of IE - that way it is handy when you go back to it. And that as long as the caching space is not needed for something else. That also means, the more RAM (and consequently caching space) you have, the more prior instances may appear in e.g. task manager.

 

[CrucialHoax]

I think what happens is that superfetch keeps instances of iexplore around from earlier use of IE - that way it is handy when you go back to it. And that as long as the caching space is not needed for something else. That also means, the more RAM (and consequently caching space) you have, the more prior instances may appear in e.g. task manager.

Good thought. I was leaning toward malware...

 

[JimJoe]

Yeah, that makes sense.

 

[CrucialHoax]

In which case disabling prefetch would fix this particular issue, correct?

 

[whs]

In which case disabling prefetch would fix this particular issue, correct?

That`s not a good idea. In any case, there is no problem at all. Those instances just sit there quietely and do no harm. Outsmarting the system is never a good idea.

 

[CrucialHoax]

In which case disabling prefetch would fix this particular issue, correct?

That`s not a good idea. In any case, there is no problem at all. Those instances just sit there quietely and do no harm. Outsmarting the system is never a good idea.

But it would correct it. There are different opinions on prefetch, but thats not the point to this thread. But it is solved.

 

[whs]

In which case disabling prefetch would fix this particular issue, correct?

That`s not a good idea. In any case, there is no problem at all. Those instances just sit there quietely and do no harm. Outsmarting the system is never a good idea.

But it would correct it. There are different opinions on prefetch, but thats not the point to this thread. But it is solved.

I guess.

 

[otown]

I think what happens is that superfetch keeps instances of iexplore around from earlier use of IE - that way it is handy when you go back to it. .

So just how can you "go back to it"? Vista just keep starting another instance of the process when you start IE7.

 

[whs]

You go back to it by calling that instance again - e.g. if CNN.com was cached, next time you go to CNN.com it will come up faster than if it were not cached. That is the same with anything that is cached. If you have a lot of RAM (3 or 4GBs for 32bit), you will notice a lot of stuff is cached in RAM and that there are hardly ever any page faults ( check in Reliability and Performance monitor under Memory > Hard Faults).
It`s like having your keys in your pocket rather than in your desk.