If you use the awesome ProcessExplorer you will see that of the multiple instances of svchost, the one that gets called by the autoupdater is the culprit. Most likely a race condition.
Microsoft is aware of it but last time I checked the patch was only available over their special distro system for people that matter, not a public download. The only option is to turn off autoupdates which is what I did and http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/12009443/m/786004271831/p/2 http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=628241 -- Brian On 5/9/07, Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm getting a lot of machines in where SVCHost has gone insane and is sucking up a lot of RAM and CPU time. There are some suggested fixes for it (mostly reinstalling/registering Microsoft Updates) but I'm interested in finding out what the "normal" CPU time and Peak Mem Usage are for svchost.exe. If people would take the time to reply with the information listed below for as many machines as they can, that would be great. To get the information, bring up Task Manager, click on View and Choose Select Columns. Check off CPU time and Peak Mem Usage. Then sort by CPU time. I'd like to get the information for System Idle Process (CPU Time) and the svchost with the highest CPU time (both CPU time, Mem Usage and Peak Mem Usage.) On my laptop, which doesn't appear to be affected, it looks like this: System Idle Process - CPU time: 34:01:05 svchost.exe - CPU Time: 00:05:36, Mem Usage (6320K) Peak Mem Usage (7584K) I'll will share all findings with the list. T
