Excessive memory use on host computer

[John Rich]

I am programming in LabVIEW RT and have recently had a problem with LabVIEW starting to use up all of my memory when the application is not even running. It continues to require more and more memory without anything being changed. This hangs the computer and usually requires a CTRL-ALT-DEL to Task Manager to shut down LabVIEW. This only began to do this today. The operating system is Windows 2000 and the program is set to run on the target RT machine.

[Ben]

This sounds interesting.

I am running LV-RT, If you posted your code, I would be happy to take a quick look to see if I can help.

Ben

[JeffBoettcher]

Here at NI I've had LabVIEW RT open for hours on end with no such issues. To further troubleshoot, some of the following pieces of information would be required:

- What version of LabVIEW RT?
- What are the specific requirements to see the behavior? You mentioned it happened when your program wasn't even running.
- Does it happen if you reboot your system, launch LabVIEW RT, and just leave it on the splash screen?
- Does it only happen once you target the RT side even if you don't open any VIs?
- Does it only happen once you have *downloaded* your code?
- Does it happen when you download *any* code, or just one particular application?
- Does it only happen after your code has run once, and then stops? If this is the case it could be an issue w
ith the user interface receiving a large amount of data from the RT side.
- Has any software been installed or uninstalled on the host computer or any other changes to it since yesterday, as you mentioned it worked before.