Major Bug Found in Windows 7 RTM Build
Posted 08/07/09 at 09:46:33 AM by Paul Lilly
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For the most part, Windows 7 has been met with considerable praise from those who have given the beta and RC releases a spin, but all those good vibes are in jeopardy following the discovery of a major bug. According to DailyTech, RTM build 7600.16385 suffers from a "massive" memory leak in the frequently used chkdsk.exe application.
The bug rears its ugly head when scanning a second hard disk on a non-boot partition or second physical drive using the "/r" parameter. Doing so triggers a nasty memory leak, with the term "leak" being used loosely. Some users have reported the dreaded blue screen of death, while others note a memory usage of about 98 percent within seconds of running the app, but without the system crash.
DailyTech says the bug has been confirmed on a variety of hardware configurations, including netbooks and Core 2 Duo notebooks, and it affects both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division, downplayed the bug saying:
"In this case, we haven’t reproduced the crash and we’re not seeing any crashes with chkdsk on the stack reported in any measurable number that we could find. We had one beta report on the memory usage, but that was resolved by design since we actually did design it to use more memory. But the design was to use more memory on purpose to speed things up, but never unbounded — we request the available memory and operate within that leaving at least 50M of physical memory. Our assumption was that using /r means your disk is such that you would prefer to get the repair done and over with rather than keep working."
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Major? REally?
Submitted by gww on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 11:16am
come on....a bug fine..but a "major" bug? Shame on your Max PC for looking to grab headlines.
maxpc Paul Lilly= Daily
Submitted by nekollx on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 11:23am
maxpc Paul Lilly= Daily Tech Mick?
InQuiring minds want to know :P
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GRRRRR... continued
Submitted by hiremenow on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 10:40am
MS is a bunch of liers if i can reproduce it then that means that they can.
Submitted by hiremenow on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 10:38am
This is why MS pisses me off instead of admitting they were wrong and fixing the problem they tell the public that "Oh its no big deal we couldnt reproduce it so it doesnt exist." doesn't exist my ass FIX IT MS.
Jeez, the OS hasn't been
Submitted by dag1992 on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 10:50am
Jeez, the OS hasn't been released yet, there's bound to be problems, just chill out.
Intel optimization my keester...
Submitted by Havok on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 9:47am
QUOTE - DailyTech says the bug has been confirmed on a variety of hardware
configurations, including netbooks and Core 2 Duo notebooks, and it
affects both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Netbooks use Intel Atoms, and Core whatever is an Intel chip. See any connection? Intel is all high and mighty saying that Win7 will be optimized for their processors, if by optimized you mean leaking memory... AMD FTW.
Suck it Intel.
OMGWTFBBQ
Submitted by dag1992 on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 10:09am
Another baseless argument brought to you by a fanboy, cheers!
Submitted by Havok on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 2:44pm
In hindsight, I never actually meant to come off as a fanboy for AMD, but I do appreciate them.
Seems like I have foot-in-mouth disease.
OMGWTFBBQ
No Issue
Submitted by dugn on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 9:39am
For starters, you have to be in the command-prompt in Win7 (only geeks do this), with a secondary drive - that you want to run chkdsk in a local CMD window (instead of at boot time). Not a showstopper.
But then, they finally discovered it was a driver issue of the Op's machine - so effectively a non-issue for all but the silly.
Next up: If you turn your machine upside down while running triple SLI with a Physix card, dual booted with Linux on alternate Tuesdays it'll crash Win7. SHOWSTOPPER!
Echo Chamber
Submitted by xj97 on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 8:56am
So now it's looking like it's not a bug after all from what I'm reading... that the program uses as much of your system resources as it can (in a non-disruptive way) to finish as quickly as possible.
It's odd with so many news sources blogging others, it seems to add credence to stories that maybe weren't researched very thoroughly... if I see it repeated 10 places it seems to have more validity.
Submitted by nekollx on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 11:13am
that's how i read it. MS count find the memory leak "bug" because from their perspection chkdsk -r is designed to uses maximum ram (minus 50MB) to complete the process as quickly as posible.
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Submitted by MeTo on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 8:25am
It's only just begun. There will be thousands of these kind of story's to come as more PC use Win 7. History alway's repeats it self.
DailyTech Did Not...
Submitted by Comic Book Guy on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 8:13am
DailyTech did not find the bug, it was a user on Windows 7 Center (http://windows7center.com/) who found the bug, and DailyTech is taking the glory to finding it. Typical!
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