Note to self: don't be so stupid

Posted by Joseph on 10/17/2004 9:53 PM | Comments (4)

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

 

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Guillaume Gilbert
Guillaume Gilbert on 10/18/2004 1:09 PM What was it ?
David M. Kean
David M. Kean on 10/18/2004 6:57 PM Very nice, I always tried to figure out how to work out that..
JosephCooney
JosephCooney on 10/19/2004 8:34 AM 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.
Aydsman
Aydsman on 10/20/2004 9:05 AM 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">http://teamrobin.com) and you might find it useful.



http://www.processlibrary.com">http://www.processlibrary.com
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