Svchost Memory Leak in Windows 2003 sp1

[Guest Alex Loh]

Currently we are seeing a memory leak occuring in svchost process via

Task Manager in Windows 2003 sp1. Upon investigation, we found out that

svchost's services are as below:

 

- Application Experience Lookup Service

- Background Intelligent Transfer Service

- Cryptographic Services

- COM+ Event System

- Server

- Workstation

- Network Connections

- Network Location Awareness (NLA)

- Task Scheduler

- System Event Notification

- Windows Management Instrumentation

 

 

The svchost consume up to 200+ MB in 10 days after reboot.

 

Anybody have any idea how to overcome this issue.

Thanks

 

 

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Re: Svchost Memory Leak in Windows 2003 sp1

 

 

"Alex Loh" <Alex.Loh.3hzkfd@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message

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>

> Currently we are seeing a memory leak occuring in svchost process via

> Task Manager in Windows 2003 sp1. Upon investigation, we found out that

> svchost's services are as below:

>

> - Application Experience Lookup Service

> - Background Intelligent Transfer Service

> - Cryptographic Services

> - COM+ Event System

> - Server

> - Workstation

> - Network Connections

> - Network Location Awareness (NLA)

> - Task Scheduler

> - System Event Notification

> - Windows Management Instrumentation

>

>

> The svchost consume up to 200+ MB in 10 days after reboot.

>

> Anybody have any idea how to overcome this issue.

> Thanks

>

>

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I would launch procexp.exe (http://www.sysinternals.com) to monitor which svhost

process has a memory leak. You will need to select a suitable column via the

View pull-down menu.

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: Svchost Memory Leak in Windows 2003 sp1

 

>Currently we are seeing a memory leak occuring in svchost process via

>Task Manager in Windows 2003 sp1. Upon investigation, we found out that

>svchost's services are as below:

>

>- Application Experience Lookup Service

>- Background Intelligent Transfer Service

>- Cryptographic Services

>- COM+ Event System

>- Server

>- Workstation

>- Network Connections

>- Network Location Awareness (NLA)

>- Task Scheduler

>- System Event Notification

>- Windows Management Instrumentation

>

>

>The svchost consume up to 200+ MB in 10 days after reboot.

>

>Anybody have any idea how to overcome this issue.

>Thanks

 

You should really be on SP2 by now as it's been fairly well vetted and

is safe. If you go this route, I suggest also installing the post-SP2

update that turns off the SNP.

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf