Industrial One wrote:
Industrial One wrote:
Is there any tangible solution to fixing application RAM buildup?
svchost.exe is now taking up over 400 megs and my comp has been on
for
a couple days. Firefox does the same thing, but firefox I can
fortunately restart, svchost I can't without restarting the whole OS.
If your symptoms match this, for the time being, disable the
update function.
"Windows XP: High memory usage for
svchost+wuauclt"
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?threadID=408643
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vistawu/thread/c41d2ef2...
"visithttp://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate
click Change Settings on the left
Scroll down and DISABLE MICROSOFT UPDATE"
Perhaps that will help, until Microsoft issues a fix.
Paul
My Automatic updates are already turned off... I don't trust M$'s so-
called "security fixes."
The only other thing I can suggest, if you have WinXP Pro, is
go to command prompt and do
tasklist /svc
which will list the contents of each service host. Maybe that
will tell you what the svchost is doing, which is using so much RAM.
These are my svchost entries:
svchost.exe 1228 DcomLaunch, TermService
svchost.exe 1316 RpcSs
svchost.exe 1440 AudioSrv, CryptSvc, Dhcp, dmserver,
ERSvc,
EventSystem,
FastUserSwitchingCompatibility,
helpsvc, Irmon, LanmanServer,
lanmanworkstation, Netman, Nla,
RasMan,
Schedule, seclogon, SENS,
SharedAccess,
ShellHWDetection, srservice, TapiSrv,
Themes, TrkWks, W32Time, winmgmt,
wscsvc,
wuauserv, WZCSVC
svchost.exe 1540 Dnscache
svchost.exe 1652 Alerter, LmHosts, RemoteRegistry,
SSDPSRV
svchost.exe 592 WebClient
svchost.exe 860 stisvc
My svchost PID 1440 is using 22MB of RAM, the others around 4MB or so
each.
If you have WinXP Home, you can use Process Explorer to list the same
kind of info. In fact, with Process Explorer, you can at least get
a text string for each of those services, so you can get a better idea
as to what they are.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
So far, I can't find a utility that will give a breakdown of the
resources
used by each item inside a svchost. That would be useful info, as the
other debugging method (shutting down services one by one), is dangerous
and time consuming. Never shut down a service, without seeing what other
services depend on it first.
Paul
How exactly will this tell me who the memory-hungry ****er is? Here's
a list of services run by svchost, not that it will tell anyone
anything:
I:\WINDDWS\system32\svchost.exe
Services:
Automatic Updates [wuauserv]
Background Intelligent Transfer Service [BITS]
CDM+ Event System [EventSystem]
Computer Browser [Browser]
Cryptographic Services [CryptSvc]
DHCP Client [Dhcp]
Distributed Link Tracking Client [TrkWks]
Fast User Switching Compatibility [FastUserSwitchingCompatibiIity]
Help and Support [helpsvc]
HID Input Service [HidServ]
Logical Disk Manager [dmserver]
Network Connections [Netman]
Network Location Awareness [NI..A] [Nla]
Flemote Access Connection Manager [FIasMan]
Secondary Logon [seclogon]
Security Center [wscsvc]
Server [Ianmanserver]
Shell Hardware Detection [SheIIHWDetection]
System Event Notification [SENS]
System Flestore Service [srservice]
Task Scheduler [Schedule]
Telephony [TapiSrv]
Themes [Themes]
Windows Audio [AudioSrv]
Windows FirewaII.··'Internet Connection Sharing [ICS] [SharedAccess]
Windows Management Instrumentation [winmgmt]
Windows Time [w32time]
Wireless Zero Configuration [WZCS\·"C]
Workstation [Ianmanworkstation]
Excuse the spelling errors, ProcessXP produced that as a picture, so I
used OCR. Btw, I disabled automatic updates in the services right
after seeing that there, and svchost.exe is still growing, so you can
be assured it's not the culprit.
