Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sat Jan 26 01:05:48 CST 2013
Whatever it was, it seems to have gone away. But I've been keeping the task manager open in the task bar of late and keeping an eye on things. R -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:23 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] 1 GB Ram - but what is it? 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. 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