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Why, even when my shows are off, does the LORMonitor.exe continue to count up like a clock in my task manager-- showing that at some points, it is eating more than 1,200,000 K? It starts off using about 10,000 k, but after a couple hours, and when the show is running or off, it is just using up my computer memory to the point that it is shutting down my light show. How do I make it stop counting up?

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Right now my lormonitor is showing only 5,484k. The show is not currently running, but the program has been running for days. Sounds like some sort of virus or file corruption. I would first try to uninstall and reinstall the LOR software and see if that helps. Make sure to backup your sequence and related files. You wouldn't want to lose those.

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warren, you might be closer to the problem than you think. Lets ask this of PD.

PD, is this computer attatched to the internet? Do you run a current and updated anti-virus program?

Although warrens suggestion of removing and reloading LOR has some merit, I am wondering about the virus angle.

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My computer has been up for 2 weeks.
Show is not running.
LORtray.exe is using 3,124 k
LORMonitor.exe is using 13,904

When the show is running it goes up to 18,186 k

I would uninstall reboot reinstall.
If that didn't work I would run a complete virus and spyware scan.

Try disconnecting it from the Internet.

Hope this helps.

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I was just reading another post that you made about having all kinds of computer problems. My experiance has been when you start loosing DLL's and getting virtual memory errors its time to wipe the harddrive clean and start over. Especially when antivirus programs don't find any problems. I think these issues might be related. It may not be a bad idea to run full chkdsk on your system to make sure harddrive is not failing. Usually I have found when you wipe the harddrive clean and start over the computer runs as if it where new.

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I was having RAM and virtual memory problems, so I got with my business'es IT department. I had been using Stop Sign Virus protection, but havent been real happy with it. The IT guys let me borrow a one gig stick of memory to put in the computer, which I did, so now I have 2 gigs of RAM. Then, they told me to go and use Trend Micro's House Call. That found and cleaned a bunch of (for lack of a better term) viruses. Then they told me to go and do a FULL scan of every file on my computer using Malwarebytes.org's program, which I did. It found and fixed a bunch more viruses. Here is one thing I noticed in the House Call...since it gave me where the viruses were located, there was one small thing attached to an LOR file. I was afraid to have it fixed because I didnt know if it was a necessary file to LOR or not, so I made the program ignore it.

Im going to run house call again and see if it comes up with anything else.

The computer is hooked up to the internet via wireless cable modem.

How do I run that chkdsk program?

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Go to My Computer then right click on c: click on properties click on tools tab and run Error Checking click both options, most likely it will tell you that it is scedualed to run on computer restart. Restart comp. I said chkdsk because I'm used to that terminology, that what it used to be called and that is what you woul use at the command prompt. But same as error checking.

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I was having RAM and virtual memory problems, so I got with my business'es IT department. I had been using Stop Sign Virus protection, but havent been real happy with it. The IT guys let me borrow a one gig stick of memory to put in the computer, which I did, so now I have 2 gigs of RAM. Then, they told me to go and use Trend Micro's House Call. That found and cleaned a bunch of (for lack of a better term) viruses. Then they told me to go and do a FULL scan of every file on my computer using Malwarebytes.org's program, which I did. It found and fixed a bunch more viruses. Here is one thing I noticed in the House Call...since it gave me where the viruses were located, there was one small thing attached to an LOR file. I was afraid to have it fixed because I didnt know if it was a necessary file to LOR or not, so I made the program ignore it.

Im going to run house call again and see if it comes up with anything else.

The computer is hooked up to the internet via wireless cable modem.

How do I run that chkdsk program?



Is that a free virus checker?
Remember you get what you paid for...not sure it picks up everything.

You might want to think about reinstalling Windows and getting a real time virus checker.
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Both Malwarebytes and House call are free...but they seemed to have worked. I ran an "all files" House Call, as I posted earlier, and it found some more than the malwarebytes did. Fixed those. Then I uninstalled and reinstalled the LOR software. Fixed the simple show builder so that it is set up the same as before, and then enabled shows. Virtual memory usage on LORMonitor.exe is hovering between 8500k and 8700k....not counting up continually. The LORTray has always been low and not counted up. Its about the same as it was before the re-install. So...hopefully I have this all fixed for tonight and wont have any more issues.

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions! Ill re-post if there are any more issues tonight.

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I totally agree with the you get what you pay for......... free is good in some cases, but remember, there is a reason it's free.
In this case free will not get all the lastest spy and maware.
Richard

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The task manager is still showing a huge memory feast by LORMonitor.exe. The show has been on for an hour and the current virtual memory usage is 594,540 k. Real memory is 607,492. Both are just climbing by the second.

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For next year you might want to buy an old PC just to run your show(s).
I have an old IBM that I use for a file server to run my show.
I have disabled the gateway so it does not connect to the Internet.
I have also disabled everything I can so only LOR is running.

It sounds like you still have something bad on your computer.

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My tray monitor is showing under 5000k memory usage.

I would advise you to uninstall other stuff and get the Microsoft Security Essentials -- free currently and actually very very good.

One of the worst viruses going around installs itself as a virus scanner (looks very professional) and keeps your computer hosed till you spend $75 to buy their professional version which then gives you your computer back.

Total scam.

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The virus scan did tell me which file and what it was, but I dont remember what it was now, and when I ran the virus scan yesterday, I just told it to fix the problems....meaning that it fixed the LOR problem (and I didnt look at it specifically at that time).

Im just going in every two hours, and at the end of my sequences show, disabling shows, then immediately re-enabling them. This knocks the memory usage back down to half way normal, then the memory starts the stopwatch count up again, and two hours later, I knock it back down. I have a 13 second lag in the show, but Ive got it working anyway.

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PD,

How many sequences do you have in your show? My second show of the evening has 62 sequences in it, including announcements. I watched the memory usage climb up to over 333,000 and then when the show looped it stopped climbing.

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Two very short "openings"....totaling one minute.
Five songs after that, between three and four minutes each.
Total show is under 20 minutes. My memory doesnt lower though when the show "recycles." It just keeps climbing higher and higher.

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PS- Im using 16 Channels to control about 7000 lights. I would like to put one of those "using ___ channels"
Controlling ______ lights"
on the bottom of this thing, but I could only figure out how to put one or the other.

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When you say "even with my shows are off" do you mean when they aren't running, or when shows are disabled? I think if your shows are disabled and LORMonitor continues to use resources, you may have an issue with your comm port or some other piece of hardware. I have no idea how to attack that issue.

I watched my Task Manager as one of the shows played and LORMonitor builds in resource usage for the first 3 or 4 songs and then levels out. One thing you can test is set up a show with only one of your sequences in the show. Let it run and see if the resource usage continues to build, or if it levels out. If the first one you try continues to build usage, try a different sequence and see if you get the same thing.

What I'm wondering is if you have a fault in one of your sequences and it isn't shutting down correctly within the show. If you have a sequence that doesn't shut down correctly it will never release its' resources and then the next time it plays it will use a new set for as long as LOR is running. Until you run out of resources that is.

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What version of the software are you running, and what OS?

When you say "even with my shows are off" do you mean when they aren't running, or when shows are disabled? I think if your shows are disabled and LORMonitor continues to use resources, you may have an issue with your comm port or some other piece of hardware.

LORMonitor should actually stop entirely when shows are disabled. If you see it running, and shows are disabled, something's strange.

To be explicit, this is as opposed to when shows are enabled but no show is playing - it does run in that situation.
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