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Rattl3r's avatar
Rattl3r
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...
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Blanca_O
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's avatar
Rattl3r
Initiate
Jul 29, 2020
Yes I have tried both ways with all 3 driver versions avaliable on your support tab for the A7000
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    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's avatar
      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!

      • d_bone's avatar
        d_bone
        Aspirant
        Nov 23, 2020

        Hello, I've been dealing with a WIndows 10 memory leak for months, and recently isolated my A7000 driver as the culprit.

         

        As stated by others, poolmon.exe showed me that driver tag "A700" was causing the leak. I can disable and then re-enable the adapter in Device Manager, which temporarily clears the memory leak before it steadily builds back up over time, usually about a gig or two per day.

         

        I have tried all three currently available driver versions (1.0.0.10, 1.0.0.11, 1.0.0.15), both standalone and with Genie, but the memory leak persists.

         

        If you have a legacy version somewhere prior to these three most recent bugged versions it would be much appreciated!

    • Doggys's avatar
      Doggys
      Aspirant
      Apr 05, 2021

      Hello,

       

      I have the exact same issue, cheked with poolmon:

       

      Memory: 8347392K Avail: 1633064K PageFlts: 21380 InRam Krnl: 9896K P:344952K
      Commit:11921780K Limit:16736000K Peak:14562284K Pool N:1819740K P:403264K
      System pool information
      Tag Type Allocs Frees Diff Bytes Per Alloc

      A700 Nonp 15219096 ( 567) 8720668 ( 270) 6498428 1351786176 ( 61776) 208

       

      Is there any ather driver to test?

       

      Regards

  • dale5351's avatar
    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's avatar
      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.