SVCHOST on Win XP

[Sundance]

All I've seen it do is take up a ton of my RAM.

 

[mal]

I've found a link about it at Microsoft...

;Q314056]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q314056

 

[MasterAkumaMatata]

Originally posted by Sundance@Aug. 13 2002, 4:10 am

All I've seen it do is take up a ton of my RAM.

I see two instances of this running in Task Manager (Windows 2000 Pro), taking up a total of 9,612 KB of RAM. That doesn't seem like a ton of RAM to me (384 MB here). How much RAM does your machine have?

 

[antime]

The amount of memory taken depends on what tasks are run under it. As the KB article explains, it serves as a host for .dll-based processes.

 

[Sundance]

Thanks. Anyway, the damn thing took up around 110 megs last night for whatever reason (and kept climbing), then I got a virtual memory error.

Also, to answer you questions, I have 384 megs also.

 

[MasterAkumaMatata]

110 MB? Sounds like a memory leak (or infinite loop?). What tasks were you running?

 

[Sundance]

WOHOOOO. I figured it out. Turns out that when I installed my Virus and Firewall protection, I also installed an Internet Security program. This would apparently then cause the SVCHOST for the Local System to grab any free RAM it could (within 1 hour it had grabbed 170 megs). I mearly uninstalled it and the problem is fixed.