AMD User Experience Proxy and handle leaks

high handles in AUEPMaster

This is an odd fellow here. As you can see in the image below, AUEPMaster has 157k handles. Yesterday it had over 1 million but I failed to capture a screenshot before reboot. This hasn’t impacted game performance as far as I can tell, just an annoyance. Wondering if it’s actually working as intended, does… Continue reading AMD User Experience Proxy and handle leaks

PSA: Corsair iCUE has a handle leak and makes Windows explorer slower over time

Impacted version is current plus several previous: 4.21.173 and below Handle leak is pretty obvious: Over time, a day or two, it’ll climb into the several hundred thousands. Process Explorer shows the handles are to drive resources (including Xbox/Store games that install xhd)   Disabling the storage widget and restarting the service shows handles stay… Continue reading PSA: Corsair iCUE has a handle leak and makes Windows explorer slower over time

The Dude’s Greatest Hits

As requested by several customers, I’m putting up a list of tools I find useful in troubleshooting, etc… First up…. Data Gathering I use the following tools to gather data from systems.  Each has its own place, much like a mechanic has many tools, so does the average engineer… PFE MPS Reports.  I use these… Continue reading The Dude’s Greatest Hits

PTE depletion, handle leaks and You

Applies to:  Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server, Windows 2003 32bit Server, Exchange 2000/2003 PTEs  Ok, so one of the most overlooked resources we run into with performance and availability problems is the availability (or lack thereof) of Free Page Table Entries.  What is a PTE?  It’s basically an I/O partition table, if you will.  Wikipedia has an… Continue reading PTE depletion, handle leaks and You

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