svchost.exe running high

iviv · 17 Oct 2007 at 21:34

I've torrented for ages now, and haven't had any problems. However, upon moving into a new flat for uni, one ratherr noticable problem has sprung up.

In the past, I could close azureus, and the internet would be up to normal speed in no time. However, in this flat, its my laptop thats started slowing down. After a couple of hours torrenting, svchost.exe (One running under user name: NETWORK SERVICE) is using between 25 and 75% of my CPU, and closing azureus doesn't change a thing. Restarting is the only way to stop it.
I've tried closing it through explorer, to see if windows would restart it with a decent cpu usage, but instead it complains that it has exited, and starts a 60 second timer before it restarts my laptop.

So, anyone know about the mysterious svchost and why its using all my cycles? I do realise that it could be an Azureus update that could be doing it, but I've been using azureus for ages, and don't really want to change clients. Are there other things I can test first, before installing something else?

Thanks

ns400r · 18 Oct 2007 at 10:29

As always with this process, the first thing to double check is its spelling. Is it SVCHOST or SCVHOST?

Sp00n · 18 Oct 2007 at 11:43

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processexplorer.mspx

Use that to find what program the svchost is attached too.

iviv · 18 Oct 2007 at 12:43

Deffinately svchost. 7 instances of it runing at the moment, one as a local service, 2 as network services and the other 4 as system.

Mousing over the offending one in process explorer says:
Services - Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

It doesn't have a plus next to it to expand to show other programs like one of the others does.

iviv · 20 Oct 2007 at 22:49

bump?

After keeping an eye on it, the longer azureus is open, the the higher the svchost runs. Its been on about an hour now, and its flicking between 0 and 15%.

Chireg69 · 21 Oct 2007 at 23:13

I know it's a daft thing but check that it isn't set to run in the background!
On mine, clicking the 'x' just makes it run in the background and I have to right click and close the icon by the clock!

iviv · 22 Oct 2007 at 01:54

Yep, azureus is deffinately closed. Just leaving behind svchost.exe running rather high.
currently going from between 8 and 36% cpu usage with azureus running.
And since I only have a 1.7Ghz laptop, its stopping me playing games properly, forcing me to reboot after torrenting, something whihc I haven't neeed to do before now.