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SVCHOST on Win XP

Sundance - Aug 13, 2002

		Sundance	Aug 13, 2002
		All I've seen it do is take up a ton of my RAM.

		mal	Aug 13, 2002
		I've found a link about it at Microsoft... ;Q314056]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx...

		MasterAkumaMatata	Aug 13, 2002
		Originally posted by Sundance@Aug. 13 2002, 4:10 am All I've seen it do is take up a ton of my RAM. I see two instances of this running in Task Manager (Windows 2000 Pro), taking up a total of 9,612 KB of RAM. That doesn't seem like a ton of RAM to me (384 MB here). How much RAM does your machine have?

		antime	Aug 13, 2002
		The amount of memory taken depends on what tasks are run under it. As the KB article explains, it serves as a host for .dll-based processes.

		Sundance	Aug 13, 2002
		Thanks. Anyway, the damn thing took up around 110 megs last night for whatever reason (and kept climbing), then I got a virtual memory error. Also, to answer you questions, I have 384 megs also.

		MasterAkumaMatata	Aug 13, 2002
		110 MB? Sounds like a memory leak (or infinite loop?). What tasks were you running?

		Sundance	Aug 13, 2002
		WOHOOOO. I figured it out. Turns out that when I installed my Virus and Firewall protection, I also installed an Internet Security program. This would apparently then cause the SVCHOST for the Local System to grab any free RAM it could (within 1 hour it had grabbed 170 megs). I mearly uninstalled it and the problem is fixed.