re: Services.exe, svchosts.exe using 100% cpu
Thursday, August 1, 2002 at 11:47 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by RH Music
(2 messages posted)
OK, so I ran into this problem on my brand-new Windows 2K system.
Here's what I found out:
1) Be sure to install the "Support Tools" from your Windows 2K CD onto your system.
It was not an option which I could install from the standard AutoPlay installation
dialog, instead, you need to navigate down to the SUPPORT\TOOLS sub-directory and
click on Setup.exe.
2) Go to the task manager and determine which copy of svchosts.exe is using up all
the memory. Write down the PID of the process.
3) From a command-line shell, run: tlist -s This will show all processes running
on the machine, and *further* will show which services are running inside each svchosts.exe
process. This should help you narrow down the problem a bit.
4) On my machine, I noticed that there was only a single service running on the svchosts.exe
process which was hogging all of memory, and it was RPCSS. I have since rebooted
the machine and the problem went away, but if it continues to be a problem, I've
noticed that Microsoft has a hotfix (#17) for RPCSS memory leak problems on their
website, and so I'll try that.
5) Finally, there may be a way, via registry monkeying, for you to launch many svchosts.exe
server processes, and choose exactly which services run on each. Then you could use
the procedure above to determine exactly which service is causing your problems and
then go from there.
Good luck.
RH
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