I have a serious memory leak in nonpaged pool, which happen to be Irp packets. Here is the whole story.
The system is Win7 Ultimate x64 which I primarily use to host some VirtualBox VMs. Around beginning of May I noticed that the box started to lock up and it was rock solid for almost a year...
Fixes a paged pool memory leak issue that occurs when you access some shared files that are hosted on a file server. This issue occurs in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2.
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When playing games via steam I occasionally get a crash followed by the error message.
failed to lock vertex buffer in cmesh dx8
According to the FAQ on steam this is caused by a lack of paged pool memory which is reserved for apps like direct3d.
To get round this issue its recommended that...