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Note to self: don't be so stupid

Dear self - next time you notice an instance of svchost.exe is using a huge amount of memory run tasklist /svc from the command line and find out WHAT is eating all the memory, rather than just re-booting your machine and wondering what it was.

Thanks

 

posted on Monday, October 18, 2004 2:53 AM

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# re: Note to self: don't be so stupid 10/18/2004 6:09 PM Guillaume Gilbert

What was it ?

# re: Note to self: don't be so stupid 10/18/2004 11:57 PM David M. Kean

Very nice, I always tried to figure out how to work out that..

# re: Note to self: don't be so stupid 10/19/2004 1:34 PM JosephCooney

What was it? I restarted the machine an another svchost.exe's memory usage was growing and growing. tasklist /svc showed a number of things running under the offending process ID including w32time. I remembered seeing lots of event log entries from that service (it couldn't find the time server on the domain), and was retrying constantly. I stopped the service and the memory usage growth stopped.

# re: Note to self: don't be so stupid 10/20/2004 2:05 PM Aydsman

Well, just in case you go around nuking processes on a regular basis, I was refered to this site by a mutual friend (http://teamrobin.com) and you might find it useful.

http://www.processlibrary.com

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