ie6 consuming handles

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Dave Anderson

I had an Internet Explorer (Version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
sitting on a website (http://www.lineage2.com/) for a couple of days. When
the system became unresponsive (new application requests would fail), I was
checking the task manager for unusual items. I found that the iexplore.exe
above was consuming 62,714 handles!

Stats were iexplore.exe, PID 3208, Handles 62,714, Threads 20, GDI Objects
782, Peak Memory Usage 53,532 K

Why would an Internet Explorer ever want to consume this number of handles?
Surely there should be a limit? This number of handles caused XP to be
unable to a open new applications because there were no handle resources
left.

This has to be a bug. Anyone else noticed this?

Thanks,

dave
 
Dave said:
I had an Internet Explorer (Version
6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519) sitting on a website
(http://www.lineage2.com/) for a couple of days. When the system
became unresponsive (new application requests would fail), I was
checking the task manager for unusual items. I found that the
iexplore.exe above was consuming 62,714 handles!
Stats were iexplore.exe, PID 3208, Handles 62,714, Threads 20, GDI
Objects 782, Peak Memory Usage 53,532 K

Why would an Internet Explorer ever want to consume this number of
handles? Surely there should be a limit? This number of handles
caused XP to be unable to a open new applications because there were
no handle resources left.

This has to be a bug. Anyone else noticed this?

Thanks,

dave
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