Whats svchost..and why is it hungry for memory?

[failurbydesign]

Im running vista x64 and it seems to be eating a lot of memory..any ideas?

 

[Not Bman]

I don't know, but have always wondered.

I have about an average of 5 to 15 of them running, and some are doing over 15,000KB

 

[failurbydesign]

weird, the total of all of mine running is over 300mb of ram..im just curious what they all are!

 

[LordOfLA]

type services.msc in the search box on the start bar

See all those listed as automatic and manual? They're all running in those svchost entries 🙂

Best part of windows is called svchost 🙂

 

[failurbydesign]

good call..thanks for that info!

 

[Perris Calderon]

type services.msc in the search box on the start bar

See all those listed as automatic and manual? They're all running in those svchost entries 🙂

Best part of windows is called svchost 🙂

good post

svchost= services host

 

[madmatt]

For more information on which SVCHOST is "hosting" which services, run cmd and type:

Services listing: Tasklist /SVC
Get more info: Tasklist /FI "PID eq IDNUMBER"

 

[Mizzle]

You can also just right click on the svchost processes in task manager, and select "Go to services", which will select all the services related to that certain process 🙂

 

[LordOfLA]

I'll have to install vista again and try that out 🙂

*makes mental note to stop with this OS changing itch every 5 seconds*

 

[fitz]

You can also just right click on the svchost processes in task manager, and select "Go to services", which will select all the services related to that certain process 🙂

Believe this only works in Vista.. XP you are using the command line/tasklist method.

Granted, the original Post mentioned he was running Vista and this will indeed work in Vista. But tasklist will work in most windows 2000 OS and above.

 

[Mizzle]

Oh yes, it's only in Vista. Sorry, forgot to mention that 🙂 Anyway, thread starter (failurbydesign) is running Vista, so it should work 🙂