Resource Kit Tools for Diagnosing and Monitoring Memory Leaks

Clearmem (clearmem.exe)—Forces pages out of physical memory and reduces the size of running processes’ working sets to a minimum. When you run this tool, the system pauses because of excessive high-priority activity associated with trimming the working sets. To run this tool, your paging file must be at least as large as physical memory. (Windows NT might register a lack of virtual memory, but the utility will still run.)

LeakyApp (leakyapp.exe)—Allocates virtual memory continuously until the system runs out of memory. This tool lets you observe and record component and application performance in a system running with minimum available memory.

Page Fault Monitor (PFMON—pfmon.exe)—Monitors the hard and soft page faults an application generates and displays them in realtime.

Performance Meter (perfmtr.exe)—Provides a systemwide summary of paged and nonpaged pool statistics if you type p at the command prompt.

Process Monitor (PMON—pmon.exe)—Displays a summary of memory statistics for all NT processes and updates the summary continuously until you kill the command or close the console window.

Process Status (PSTAT—pstat.exe)—Displays the status of running processes and threads.