I have 12 svchost.exe processes on vista 64bit home premium. Idle vista takes 1.31bg of ram and there was an svchost procces that was 100000k droped to 68000k and another one syating at 107000k.
I just ntcied when looking at taskmanager I feel no lag or pc preformance being slow.
Hi helo123,
Analyzing the situation on my XP computer also for one svchost process taking a lot of Virtual; Memory: Ever wondered why the svchost.exe process seems to be consuming an inordinate amount of RAM and/or virtual memory? Do a Google search and you’ll see that many other people are wondering why this memory-hogging occurs.
Wonder no more. The offending process is Automatic Updates. You can see the processes hosted by each svchost.exe by using Process Explorer by SysInternals. Just select the svchost.exe in question and choose ‘properties’.
On our corporate computers, where access to Automatic Updates is blocked by a global policy setting (as is access to Windows Update itself), the Automatic Updates process gradually consumes more and more memory. After roughly three weeks, the svchost.exe in question was using about 200 MB of RAM and over 400 MB of virtual memory.
The solution? Disable the Automatic Updates service.
polonus
The solution? Disable the Automatic Updates service.I seldom have a system up for a week without reboot.
I think that is foolish advice.
Not good for security. Common systems won’t be that affected by this, at least, mine doesn’t.
I don’t even see svchost.exe on Windows 7 but my XP system has a few of them and the largest rarely goes over 40MB
Hi forum friends,
This need correcting. CPU or VM should NOT be an excuse for disabling automatic updates. But for some updates I prefer to do them myself. Critical updates should always be automatic, some updates with issues and FP’s can better be manually. So platform related I have on automatic, avast also, threatfire also, but SAS, MBAM, SpywareBlaster and ClamWin I do manually.
Extensive VM can be OS related or due to malware activity or as I stated.
What I have experienced is that when avast 4.8 is updating it is taking full CPU for the time of the update,
polonus