Memory leak (HWiNFO using 10G memory)

[Martin]

I got some reports that driver 461.09 is fixing this memory leak issue.

 

[Kryndude]

@Martin

RTX 3070 laptop
NVIDIA driver 461.40
HWINFO64 7.02-4430
GPU Power enabled

I am witnessing slow but steady rise in HWiNFO64.exe memory usage (20K-ish per tick). Disabling GPU Power monitoring stops the leak.

 

[hugalafutro]

rtx 3090
driver 465.89
hwinfo 7.02-4430
soon as I enable GPU Power the leak starts again (basically same as my video few posts above)

 

[Zarik]

Hi. I have the same problem. It's not my problem, it's Nvidia problem. But... For statistic.
Rtx 2080Ti
Driver 461.72
HWINFO64 7.00-4400

 

[Martin]

NVIDIA got this bug submitted months ago, yet no solution for that.

 

[ryouiki]

Noticed 7.02 was consuming 1GB+ of memory, found this topic, issue still exists in 466.11 drivers as well

 

[red-ray]

It looks like after 5 months NVidia might have fixed it

 

[hugalafutro]

Seems they broke it again in some recent version, I just found hwinfo sitting at 4G memory and the leak stops soon as I disable GPU Power, basically same as before. At this point I just removed the power stats from my rainmeter and gonna leave it disabled.

I noticed it on 466.47 and it also happens on 466.63. Out of curiosity I notice the screenshot referencing drivers 470.xx where do those come from? The latest nvidia site offers me are 466.63.

 

[red-ray]

Seems they broke it again in some recent version. I noticed the screenshot referencing drivers 470.xx where do those come from?

I have checked all of the 460.79 and later drivers and none of them fixed this including V470.25 (bugfix_main) which is what get's used on the latest Windows Insider Build 21390.

I just checked bug 3216492 and it now says Versions Fixed After: 460.81 (R460_00), 465.34 (R465_00), 470.23 (R470_00) and guess we just just have to keep waiting and hoping nVidia release a fixed driver

 

[naelm90]

Seems they broke it again in some recent version, I just found hwinfo sitting at 4G memory and the leak stops soon as I disable GPU Power, basically same as before. At this point I just removed the power stats from my rainmeter and gonna leave it disabled.

I noticed it on 466.47 and it also happens on 466.63. Out of curiosity I notice the screenshot referencing drivers 470.xx where do those come from? The latest nvidia site offers me are 466.63.

Thanks for the debug work
I have the exact same issue. HWinfo version 7.044480 using 1G memory overnight. I see the the memory usage going up all the time. I can also confirm that disabling GPU power monitoring solved the issue. I have NVidia driver 466.77.

 

[ryouiki]

I looks like this *might* be fixed by 477.11, it has been running for quite some time without the previous behavior.

 

[red-ray]

My testing shows it is fixed in 471.11

 

[Zarik]

Finally! For several hours I test the new version 471.11 with enabled GPU Power. Yeah, works well. Memory does not grow. Within 25-50 megabytes.

 

[falkentyne]

Yes it's working perfectly on 471.11. Now I can monitor my GPU power again without running out of memory slowly!