Does it make any difference if you clear out the whole SoftwareDistribution directory? This is a tactic utilised in one of our AU cleanup scripts which our desktop guys claim helps out.
On 6 August 2010 03:40, Carl Houseman <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at an XP Pro SP3 desktop yesterday/today and soon after booting, > the startup of the Automatic Updates service (wuauserv) is just killing it, > using up all RAM and stalling everything due to all the swapping. Machine > has only 512MB, but this is not a question that must be answered with "add > memory" until I understand what is going on with Automatic Updates. > > > > Looking at the \Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb file, > that file is about 170MB, and not coincidentally, 170MB is the peak VM size > I saw for both wuauclt.exe and the svchost.exe used by wuauserv. > > > > So I stopped wuauserv, renamed the datastore.edb, started up wuauserv and > did a wuauclt /detectnow, and it created a new datastore.edb of the same 170 > MB size as before. > > > > Looking at my own XP machine, datastore.edb is about 6 MB. > > > > And, I'm not finding much with google for "large datastore.edb" or "huge > datastore.edb". The usual AU problem has been pegged CPU, but the CPU isn't > pegged because of all the swapping. Anybody? > > > > TIA, > > Carl > > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
