VboxSVC memory leak (Vista host only) -> fixed in SVN/2.0.4

[snowblind]

Vboxsvc.exe starts normally and eventually eats all memory. This is without opening the virtual machine. Tried both a clean install and an overlapping one to no avail.

Host is vista 64-bit ultimate.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

There's a hotfix for this problem. See ​http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949700

[Sander van Leeuwen]

The mentioned hotfix has not going through windows update yet afiacs. The mentioned dlls in my Vista 64 SP1 are older.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

I can confirm that the hotfix works for me. Request it at the top of the page.

[Van]

I can confirm that the hotfix worked for me as well. Vista 32-bit SP2.

[snowblind]

I can confirm that this hotfix works for me. Vista 64-bit Ultimate SP1. VBoxSVC stays at around 8mb.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

We've rewritten parts of the code so we don't use this Windows interface anymore. See defect #2212 for a patch.

[eriku]

Just another confirm to the hotfix solving this issue to let you know you've hit the nail on the head.

[mdmadph]

I'm actually getting this exact same problem in Win XP. I start up Virtualbox, start working with a VM, and eventually all RAM is used up and my other programs (just Firefox for development) are moving sluggish because they've all been moved to virtual RAM.

I look at my available physical memory and it's hovering near 30MB, even though the Virtualbox VM is set to use only 512 MB, and before starting the VM I had over 1.5GB free.

Think I might start a new ticket about this...

[Erica Strahon]

I just installed VirtualBox and came here because I was experiencing the same thing. It eventually started eating around a gig of my memory. I just wanted to confirm that the hotfix worked. Thanks.