Thank the maker it’s not just me! I have tried all sorts of updates/hotfixes, nothing matters. Same thing happens on a vanilla Win7 VM. My machines with 2GB RAM run like frozen molasses now when this happens.
Mark Kent (MCP) Sr. Desktop Systems Engineer Computing & Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sherry Kissinger Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2015 2:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] Windows Update memory usage I guess I never noticed; but checking a win7 box right now; when I trigger a scan svchost is going over 1gb ram. On Thursday, March 5, 2015 11:45 AM, "Kent, Mark" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Is anyone else noticing Windows 7 using a large amount of memory when it runs an update scan? I see SVCHOST.EXE consume 500-1000MB of RAM when it runs an update scan. Windows 8/10 don’t seem to do that. Mark Kent (MCP) Sr. Desktop Systems Engineer Computing & Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State
