Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Jan 26 00:23:13 CST 2013
Jumped to 160MB in the last 3 1/2 hours. So it certainly looks like a buggy app with a bad memory leak.- A quick google confirms it, lots of reports of the same problem. Rocky, Yours 1GB hog may be a similar problem. Check with ProcExp what is running under that particular svchost and monitor its size over time. Then decide whether it is a critical component or whether you can disable it. -- Stuart On 26 Jan 2013 at 12:41, Stuart McLachlan wrote: > I just did some more testing and when initially loaded, it "only" uses about 100MB - so there > would appear to be a serious memory leak in it (I haven't rebooted the laptop for several days > at least). > > I think I'll leave it running for now and see what it does over time. > > > -- > Stuart > > On 25 Jan 2013 at 16:55, Hans-Christian Andersen wrote: > > > Unbelievable!!! I remember running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups on just a mere 8 megabytes (yes, megabytes!) and these days software developers are incapable of writing touchpad extensions software that fits under 1.3 gigabytes of RAM. > > > > http://www.mememaker.net/static/images/templates/14288.jpg > > > > - Hans > > > > > > > > On 2013-01-25, at 4:47 PM, "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote: > > > > > Out of interest, I just ran ProcExp on my laptop. I found that the Synaptecs Touchpad > > > Extensions was using 1.3GB of RAM :-( > > > > > > I stopped the process, recovered 1.3GB of free RAM and the touchpad still works fine (I thnk > > > the only thing it did was make the touchpad "mulit-touch" and makes the serrrated line on the > > > right hand side of the touchpad emulate the scroll wheel. Neither of which I use in > > > practice.) > > > > > > So I used Sysinternals Autoruns to disable loading it at startup. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Stuart > > > > > > On 25 Jan 2013 at 16:38, Rocky Smolin wrote: > > > > > >> How nice that the DOS commands I used 30 years ago are still under that > > >> sophisticated GUI. Now that's software with LEGS! :) > > >> > > >> But not too informative - no RAM size so I cant tie it to what I'm seeing in > > >> the task manager. > > >> > > >> I'll try What's Running...well that just tells me that all the svchost.exe > > >> belong to MS Windows Operating System. > > >> > > >> Well, I don't have the big svchost problem at the moment. And it's Miller > > >> Time. :) > > >> > > >> R > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > > >> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Patten > > >> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 3:31 PM > > >> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > > >> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] 1 GB Ram - but what is it? > > >> > > >> Rocky, > > >> > > >> Try typing tasklist /svc in a dos prompt, that may help. > > >> > > >> In Windows 8 you can click on the drop down in front of the svchost, and I > > >> think the freeware 'what's running' will show you as well > > >> > > >> Bill > > >> > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Rocky Smolin > > >> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 2:55 PM > > >> To: 'Off Topic' ; List > > >> Subject: [dba-Tech] 1 GB Ram - but what is it? > > >> > > >> 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 > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> dba-Tech mailing list > > >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> dba-Tech mailing list > > >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > dba-Tech mailing list > > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >