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Recently I have noticed that my system process has been
leaking handles. Over the course of a day, the handle
count goes from ~400 to over 10,000. Memory usage does
not increase very much, but the system does start slowing
down. Process explorer shows that most of the new handles
are registry key handles with no name under the System
process. I've tried using regmon to track down what
registry key is being accessed, but have not been able to
track it down.
I'm running windows 2000 sp4 with all critical updates
install. My computer is also serving as a NAT router for
my home network, if that helps. I've searched microsoft
support files, and updated everything I can think of with
no luck. Considering how closely I've monitored my
computer to try to figure this out, I am also pretty
confident that no trojan or malicious software is running.
Any ideas on what might be causing this, or how I could go
about tracking down what registry key these handles are
opening?
leaking handles. Over the course of a day, the handle
count goes from ~400 to over 10,000. Memory usage does
not increase very much, but the system does start slowing
down. Process explorer shows that most of the new handles
are registry key handles with no name under the System
process. I've tried using regmon to track down what
registry key is being accessed, but have not been able to
track it down.
I'm running windows 2000 sp4 with all critical updates
install. My computer is also serving as a NAT router for
my home network, if that helps. I've searched microsoft
support files, and updated everything I can think of with
no luck. Considering how closely I've monitored my
computer to try to figure this out, I am also pretty
confident that no trojan or malicious software is running.
Any ideas on what might be causing this, or how I could go
about tracking down what registry key these handles are
opening?