wuauclt.exe brutally leaking memory

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   I'm on XP Service Pack 3 (so I have KB927891 installed), and whenever I turn Automatic Updates on a Windows Update Automatic Updates dedicated process AND a svchost thread double-team me to rapidly allocate all of my ram until they exhaust it, at which point they free it and repeat the process (causing me to have a sawtooth-wave RAM usage graph). The update stuff itself never happens.

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Stuart P. Bentley Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 01 October 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1	Quote Reply Topic: wuauclt.exe brutally leaking memory Posted: 01 October 2009 at 9:59am
	I'm on XP Service Pack 3 (so I have KB927891 installed), and whenever I turn Automatic Updates on a Windows Update Automatic Updates dedicated process AND a svchost thread double-team me to rapidly allocate all of my ram until they exhaust it, at which point they free it and repeat the process (causing me to have a sawtooth-wave RAM usage graph). The update stuff itself never happens.

molotov Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 04 October 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 17287	Quote Reply Posted: 29 October 2009 at 1:36am
	Hi Stuart, Have you tried forcing a reinstall of the Windows Update Agent? Use the /wuforce command-line switch...
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