svchost using up a LOT of RAM

manic111 · 24 Aug 2008 at 13:45

For some reason over the last few days svchost.exe has been using up inordinate amounts of RAM, and often CPU cycles. It has always used a fair bit, but has recently become much more noticeable.

I am running Vista Home Premium 32bit on:

E4500 @ 2.8ghz
2GB Geil Black Dragon 6400
HD3850
320GB Seagate 7200.10 HDD
Gigabyte P35C-DS3R

Here is a screenshot of my task manager.

marc2003 · 24 Aug 2008 at 14:21

think that's normal really. just checked mine and one is running at 143mb...

manic111 · 24 Aug 2008 at 14:29

Hah, fair enough! I'm just pretty sure than it used to be. Think I'm going to reinstall Windows anyway...is there any chance you could see my thread below and give me some advice? Cheers

Love the Cardigans by the way!

mattross · 24 Aug 2008 at 16:02

You can probably reduce this by disabling the system services you don't need, most of the Microsoft ones run inside these svchost.exe processes.

manic111 · 24 Aug 2008 at 16:25

Awesome cheers!

snowdog · 24 Aug 2008 at 16:57

112 mb is a lot ?
That's very little for vista.
Mine is taking 150+ mb...

lumpeh · 24 Aug 2008 at 18:23

its precaching the binaries you frequently use. Changed your usage of late?

manic111 · 24 Aug 2008 at 18:27

lumpeh said:
its precaching the binaries you frequently use. Changed your usage of late?

I hate to say that I only understand about 4 words in those 2 sentences!!! What do you mean by "changed your usage"? Usage of what?

lumpeh · 24 Aug 2008 at 19:08

Well say if you installed the Adobe Master Collection one day and started using all its applications frequently, Vista will start preloading the exes and dlls those programs use everytime you turn on your pc.

snowdog · 24 Aug 2008 at 19:26

lumpeh said:
Well say if you installed the Adobe Master Collection one day and started using all its applications frequently, Vista will start preloading the exes and dlls those programs use everytime you turn on your pc.

That's superfetch though and does not show on the process list.

manic111 · 24 Aug 2008 at 19:30

Ah right, I get you! So thats what superfetch does! I'd always wondered!

Anyway, I've had a bit of a cleanout and uninstalling fest and its all a lot quicker now-thanks for the help

lumpeh · 24 Aug 2008 at 19:31

It comes under svchost on mine. Clicking 'goto service' highlights multiple ones including superfetch.

snowdog · 24 Aug 2008 at 20:06

lumpeh said:
It comes under svchost on mine. Clicking 'goto service' highlights multiple ones including superfetch.

I'm pretty sure it's not, when I see it caching my stuff at bootup it's always the process ''system'' that is reading a lot off my hdd ( as in the performance screen) and not svchost.exe.