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Initiate

Jul 22, 2020

Having memory leak with A7000 driver version 1.0.0.11

Hi I am currently having some major driver leak errors originating from the A7000 drivers version 1.0.0.11. I had seen in a previous thread someone was having similar issues being reported by poolmon...

Aspirant

Jul 23, 2020

yeah I've had the same issue. I usually keep my PC on and has leaked ~2GB in about 3 days. It's been up to ~5GB when I've had it on for weeks.

I know it is because I can uninstall the A7000 driver and the memory is freed.

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jul 29, 2020

Hi Rattl3r and chid

Welcome to NETGEAR Community!

Do you have NETGEAR Genie installed?

Have you tried installing the stand-alone driver version?

Regards,
Blanca
Community Team

Rattl3r
Initiate
Jul 29, 2020
Yes I have tried both ways with all 3 driver versions avaliable on your support tab for the A7000
- Blanca_O
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Jul 29, 2020
  Hi Rattl3r
  
  I have sent you a message. Please check your inbox.
  
  Regards,
  Blanca
  Community Team
  - daikessen
    Aspirant
    Oct 07, 2020
    Hello!
    
    I am having a similar issue / memory leak with 1.0.0.15, and was considering testing 1.0.0.11 until running into this thread.
    
    I am just curious, is there a beta driver or other recommendation to resolve this issue?
    
    Thank you!
- dale5351
  Aspirant
  Aug 02, 2021
  I have also discovered that the A7000 driver is causing a memory leak. I tried rolling back to 11 version, but both 11 and 15 have the same problem.
  Would appreciate any help that can be had.
  - dale5351
    Aspirant
    Sep 02, 2021
    After months of fighting this memory leak, using both versions 11 and 15, I discovered and installed version 10. Now I have not had a memory leak problem for several days.