Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Sat Jan 26 03:07:10 CST 2013
As always with bugs and memory leaks, they don't happen until you give up and do something more productive with your time. Best regards, Hans-Christian Andersen On 25 Jan 2013, at 23:05, "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > 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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