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    266.58 - NvXDSync.exe memory leak

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by slickie88, Feb 15, 2011.

  1. slickie88

    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    Noticed this the other day.

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    266.58 driver. No gaming since last reboot. A lot of Outlook 2010, Firefox, Virtualbox usage. System had been up for 4 or 5 days at this point.

    After I noted this I rebooted. Less than 24 hours later that process was at 600+MB. Uninstalled, booted to safe mode, driver sweep, rebooted, installed same driver in Clean mode. Issue hasn't returned and is currently at a more reasonable 7M after 18 hours of uptime.

    Anyone else seen this with any version of the Verde drivers?
     
    slickie88, Feb 15, 2011
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  2. Xsonic

    Xsonic Notebook Consultant

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    No problems from mines. Using 266.58
     

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    I just looked at mine and I have 4500k and I have put it into suspend mode and woken(?) it up several times since a reboot.
     
    DjId10t, Feb 16, 2011
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    Hm I wonder why my driver doesn't have that process (258.96 modded) I mean, what does it benefit?
     
    MasivB, Feb 16, 2011
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    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    Since reinstalling it hasn't had any issues. Still at 7M. Strange...
     
    slickie88, Feb 16, 2011
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    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Has to do with the control panel if I'm not mistaken. Check the nvxdsync via google. I recall reading something about it a few days ago. Some reported disabling it without issue but losing CP. Not sure. Its been associated with issues since 260.xx.
     
    BatBoy, Feb 16, 2011
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  7. MasivB

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    ahhaa have latest nvidia drivers on my desktop and I checked this Nsync out and it has accumulated about 20K of my RAM from my comp being on the last couple days (I leave torrents on) I think this has to do with leaving comp idle this thing massive accumulates RAM, this just a theory tho
     
    MasivB, Feb 16, 2011
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    I actually noticed this today, had my computer on for about a week, and I only had 30-40% RAM available while idle. I got 6 GB total, and thought it was a bit strange. Unfortunately I ended the process and reinstalled the drivers without taking a screenie, but it was using 1 886 xxx KB of RAM and counting. So I was almost at 1,9 GB of RAM wasted on this thing. Very peculiar.
     
    Capon3, Apr 14, 2011
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