Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Jan 25 18:35:31 CST 2013
svchost.exe is the generic process name for a DLL thats being executed as if it was a real application, so it could really be anything. Now, on Linux I would by able to tell you easily how to find out which one is sucking up all that memory, but, alas, someone else more familiar with windows internals would be better able to help here. - Hans On 2013-01-25, at 2:55 PM, "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > Looking at my task manager I have a svchost.exe process that's taking 1.0 > -1.3 GB RAM Any way to find out what it is? > > There's a bunch of the svchost.exe processes but smaller - 13 of them > ranging from 2 to 40 MB in size. Who are they? > > I just terminated the big one. Everything seems OK so far. > > Rocky > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com