How much ram does your svchost use?

svchost is constantly using between 120-150 mb of ram, i was wondering how much it uses for you guys

(i have 4gb of ram and im on vista home premium)

what is it doing that requires so much.. i thought it was just used to manage DLLs which are really small right?

 

Go to the Task Manager, right click on an svchost, and select Go to Service(s). It will take you to the Services tab. Sort the list by PID (Process ID), and it'll show you which services that svchost is running.

If that 150 MB out of 4096 MB that you have is really that much a loss to you, then you can go and disable some or all of the services out of that bunch.

 

Which svchost? Most machines are showing more than one. As Silas said you need to see what services the svchost is actually hosting.

Gary

 

oh thanks, didnt know i could do that. Most of the services are windows things that i probably shouldent disable and superfetch so i guess that explains it.

Thanks

 

I believe svchost also manages a lot of network background stuff. For instance my svchost goes crazy with resource hogging when downloading Windows updates. (I'm still using XP, that may not be the case for Vista.)

 

Actually, in XP an instance of svchost manages the Windows Update process itself.

If you get a copy of Sysinternals Process Explorer it will give you the same sort of functionality that Vista's task manager does, namely the linkage of what services are controled by what instances of svchost. Plus Process Explorer goes WAY beyond that with lost of helpful info.

Gary

 

Thanks for the recommendation. I was have been curious if there was software that would do this for me, as I have been told that some viruses will mask themselves at svchost. I'll install that as soon as I get my notebook back up and running .