Yeah so this just started happening today it seems. It happens around 3 minutes after start up. It would sit at around the 10,000 mark or so, then after 3 minutes it would immediately jump up to 500,000 and then 1,500,000 in a matter of seconds. Haven't installed or downloaded anything recently, did a scan and didn't show anything. Restart did nothing. Any ideas on what this can be and how to fix it? Thanks.
In your task manager, go to the performance tab and look for "Uptime" and tell me what that number is. (In Windows 10 you have to be on CPU to see this)
This tells us how long your PC has been running.
[QUOTE=ghostofme;50344726]In your task manager, go to the performance tab and look for "Uptime" and tell me what that number is. (In Windows 10 you have to be on CPU to see this)
This tells us how long your PC has been running.[/QUOTE]
It's just 28 mins. I've restarted it recently.
Can you post a picture of running programs in your task manager sorted by memory usage?
[QUOTE=ghostofme;50344888]Can you post a picture of running programs in your task manager sorted by memory usage?[/QUOTE]
Sure.
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[t]http://i.imgur.com/Q9KTZQD.png[/t]
[QUOTE=Hogie bear;50344917]Sure.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/kKArwjG.png[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Q9KTZQD.png[/t][/QUOTE]
Thanks! I take it you're on Windows 7? If so what Service pack?
[editline]18th May 2016[/editline]
Also something to try for a quick fix: [url]http://www.wintips.org/how-to-fix-svchost-exe-netsvcs-memory-leak-or-high-cpu-usage-problems/[/url]
Scroll down to step 2 and run the Windows Update Troubleshooter.
[QUOTE=ghostofme;50344997]Thanks! I take it you're on Windows 7? If so what Service pack?[/QUOTE]
Yup windows 7, service pack 1.
Svchost is just a container for running Windows Services, right click on the offending Svchost process and press "Go to service" or something similar. Post which services which are highlighted, one of them are the issue.
[QUOTE=Anderen2;50345116]Svchost is just a container for running Windows Services, right click on the offending Svchost process and press "Go to service" or something similar. Post which services which are highlighted, one of them are the issue.[/QUOTE]
Building on this, Superfetch is common culprit for this.
Windows update likes to do this on Windows 7 I have found.
[QUOTE=ghostofme;50345182]Building on this, Superfetch is common culprit for this.[/QUOTE]
Superfetch prefetches data into your free memory ahead of times to speed up your system for loading later on. It's not a bad thing, since the free memory is just wasted otherwise. Any unneeded data that were prefetched are simply paged out of the memory if any programs requires more system memory to itself.
Arlight, so it seems to have just dropped back down to 20,000 after just checking 2 mins ago. Decided to restart and see if it do it again, and it did! Back up to 1,500,000 again.
[QUOTE=Anderen2;50345116]Svchost is just a container for running Windows Services, right click on the offending Svchost process and press "Go to service" or something similar. Post which services which are highlighted, one of them are the issue.[/QUOTE]
Here ya go. Grey are from svchost, obviously.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/c7E6ZW0.png[/t]
[QUOTE=Hogie bear;50345490]
Here ya go. Grey are from svchost, obviously.
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It's almost always the offender. That's windows updater probably waiting to install updates or restart to finish updating.
Just try to stop them one by one, when the memory drops down you've found the culprit.
You should restart your system afterwards though, probs not that stable after loosing some services.
Could be a virus or windows update.
Glad to see windows 10 fixed this bug though.
Damn, I checked right now out of curiosity and svchost was peaking at 1,5 GB usage. Shut down windows update service, here's 1.35 GB of your RAM back.
I have no idea what the hell that service was doing, but 13% CPU and almost 1/4 of my total ram seems like an absolute resource hog. Some of the games I play put less strain in my computer than this ever-running (until now) service.
How much RAM do you actually have free? If the process is using up 1.5GB but you have 8GB with something like 2GB unused, leave it alone. Free memory is wasted memory.
windows update has always been the culprit with me. there's a couple of hotfixes that will sort it out.
KB3138612 and KB947821-v34 ran in that order should fix it.
Yo its windows update, the old version shits itself when trying to get the update list
First disable automatic updates, [URL="https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4a782e40-bbd8-40b7-869d-68e3dfd1a5b4/windows-update-scan-high-memory-usage?forum=w7itproperf"]download the newest version[/URL] and you're good to go
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