svchost.exe using a lot of memory?

davedudes · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:14

I was just having a look through my processes and noticed there is one instance of svchost.exe file using 146.164K of memory, just not to sure what to do? you guys help?

hideki · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:22

I don't think its anything to worry about, unless the memory used keeps on increasing or your system runs out of free memory. A reboot would fix it anyway.

svchost.exe is a "Host process for windows services", and you can find out which ones by clicking "go to service(s)" of the specific instance in the process window of task manager.

You will then see the services tab, and all the services wil be highlighted that belong to that process. There may be multiple services, (all with the same PID), you can then if you want stop any of the services.

theheyes · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:25

Agree with the above, it's more than likely nothing to worry about.

davedudes · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:30

hideki said:
I don't think its anything to worry about, unless the memory used keeps on increasing or your system runs out of free memory. A reboot would fix it anyway.

svchost.exe is a "Host process for windows services", and you can find out which ones by clicking "go to service(s)" of the specific instance in the process window of task manager.

You will then see the services tab, and all the services wil be highlighted that belong to that process. There may be multiple services, (all with the same PID), you can then if you want stop any of the services.

Thanks for the info, the thing is I restarted and it pops up again :confused:

, also ive noticed im 19% of physical memory its usually about 16% does this mean anything?

hideki · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:35

Mine is on 32% so you aren't doing too bad

The additional memory usage could be due to a service running that wasn't present before, lot of programs use them.

As long as the memory used by it doesn't continue to increase drastically I dont think its anything to worry about.

davedudes · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:40

hideki said:
Mine is on 32% so you aren't doing too bad

The additional memory usage could be due to a service running that wasn't present before, lot of programs use them.

As long as the memory used by it doesn't continue to increase drastically I dont think its anything to worry about.

Cheers, thanks for the information

Dan.m · 17 Oct 2009 at 15:18

Doubt its anything to worry about, i have 12 svchost.exe running, one using 135,000 two using 50,000, two using 10,000, and the rest using 1-5000.