[timtam95]

i've noticed over the last week or so that the ram usage for my tf2 server has jumped to ~ 400mb upon startup with no players connected. every time a player connects it uses about an extra 1mb of ram. eventually it consumes all of the server ram and crashes. it usually was around 50-75mb before. i completely removed metamod & sourcemod and it didn't change a thing. i deleted and reinstalled the server from scratch via steamcmd with no addons, same. the server is running windows 7 pro with 4gb ram. i even tried installing on another server with a fresh install of win 7, same results. last ditch effort was to install on a fresh copy of XP pro, that still did not change a thing. does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

[Bacardi]

You do reboot server every 24h ?

Maybe one of plugings does "memory leak".

Do first handle dump when server start
sm_dump_handles handles1.txt

Then let server run long time, let players connect and so on...
Do second dump
sm_dump_handles handles2.txt

Compare these two txt files.