See CPU usage for indivitual services?

[Dave Hampson]

Hello,

I'm running a clean install of RTM on a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz 1GB machine. There
is one svchost.exe process, hosting about 10 services, that is very often
taking 50% CPU and 70MB of memory. I really like the feature that takes me
to the Services tab and highlights the ones running in that process, but is
there a way to see CPU usage for each Service? Something is going crazy, and
I'd like to resolve it, or help Microsoft resolve it. It's really slowing my
machine down.

Thanks,

TowerDave

 

[Kristan Kenney]

Hi Dave,

I'd highly recommend Process Explorer
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx)
and Process Monitor
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/processmonitor.mspx).
These two utilities should be very useful in helping you track down which
service is using your CPU.

Hope this helps and have a great day,

--
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[Dave Hampson]

Kristan,

Process Explorer just shows which svchost process is using all the CPU,
which Task Manager does as well. What I need to know is which service
running inside that svchost process is the culprit. Process Explorer shows
2, Desktop Window Manager, and Windows Driver Foundation.

Process Monitor does show a ton of activity with svchost accessing all of my
pictures. Could it be the Offline Files that are causing all the problems?
SearchIndex isn't running, so I don't think that's it.

Thanks,

TowerDave

 

[Kristan Kenney]

Try disabling Offline Files and see what happens.

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[Dave Hampson]

Did that, and that appears to be the culprit.

Thanks for the links. I honestly didn't think that those tools would help,
so I hadn't tried them yet.

Thanks again,

TowerDave