So, in my infinite wisdom I recently upgraded the Broadcom Wireless Utility to v.6.10A , the latest listed on HP.COM for my TC4200. This little puppy is now a memory hungry beast... at least if you don't reboot frequently. It starts out benign, but gradually eats more and more memory, both "Mem Usage" and "VM Size" increase in 4K increments, for no apparent reason. The reason I noticed even though was Windows popped up a nice little error this afternoon about running short on Virtual Memory, which led me to notice the 196 MB VM usage that this process was using. Restarting the Broadcom Wireless service doesn't help either, as this particular process isn't tied to "stop", only to "start", so in the end I had to kill the process.
I wonder why no one else sees this problem. Why is it always my laptop to have the bizarre issues, such as Windows occasionally returning from Hibernation without the system remaining locked (so much for security!), or Internet Explorer forcing eventual lack of resources (seriously easy for me to repeat VERY quickly). Oh well.
Picture of absurd memory usage to come...
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