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BCMWLTRY.EXE - Memory Leak or The Future?
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Recently I have been having massive issues with my main laptop, it had a decent size memory leak. The page-file would fill up every 3-4 hours requiring a cold reboot. At first I just dealt with it, having to stop what I was doing(read: coding) and reboot my computer 5x a day. Well at 4AM this morning I was composing the release notes for XtraUpload 1.6 RC1 and the page-file ran out of memory. Right when i was finished and i was about to save. I lost everything. Including my mind. So after I rebooted I shut down explorer.exe, opened up the task manager and sorted all processes by User, Process Name. 3 minutes later i was down to 40 processes, mostly created by SYSTEM. I was hesitant at first, but then I remembered my uncontrollable rage when my computer last froze, so I said screw it! Screw them all! One by one I killed the innocent looking for my target and once I found it, with it’s unstable memory allocations occurring right in front of me, I reached for my mouse(I call it Judge Dread) and let “The Judge, Jury, and Executioner” do my dirty work.
Once I rebooted again(I stopped my video drivers in search of my victim, explorer was having a fit) I scoured the Internet looking for this BCMWLTRY.EXE. Turns out it is MY DAMN WIRELESS MANAGER. AHHAHHA!!1!!1one111. So I Decreed that all computers I touch must hack the Matrix through an Ethernet connection.
And now back to writing up the release notes for XU 1.6 RC1
-Matt
July 27th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Same process same problem. Wireless still works when I kill the process. I do have a strange icon on my task bar for wireless. When I mouse over it, I get (driver not installed). Something is wrong with my wireless installation. It is a Broadcom card. Has anyone else had the same problem? Does anyone know the solution?
July 29th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Same thing here - Broadcom driver. The virtual memory comes from it allocating handles and never releasing them, but I haven’t figured out exactly what handles it’s trying to allocate yet. It’s very annoying because it was almost impossible to figure out what was causing it.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:04 am
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August 7th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Hi,
i am from Germany and got the same problem. Mysterious that u cant locate it, that it is the BMCWLTRY.exe. This is the only Threat of this problem.
How did u solve the problem without killing the process every time?
August 7th, 2008 at 10:45 am
I solved it by deleting the file quickly after killing the process. I then reinstalled my wireless manager after a cold reboot. Benn working fine ever since.
-Matt