Re: svchost.exe leads to heavy hard disk activity.

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I found a forum where a chap had a similar problem 2 years ago & I've
asked if he found a solution:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=16090

Jorolat


On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:21:01 -0700, "gx"
<gx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I have seen your post. Yes, we are experiencing a very similar problem. I
>have used FileMon (from www.sysinternals.com) to monitor the I/O operations
>on svchost.exe and found that most of I/O are in the folder:
>.../system32/wbem/repository/. It belongs to the service "winmgmt". After I
>shut down the serive, the problem is gone.
>
>Here is my ugly solution. I do not know whether it works for you. And the
>service winmgmt is important to XP, shuting down it may cause further
>problems. I just guess that there must be something wrong in the
>configurations of winmgmt.
>
>Thanks,
>gx
>
>
>"John Latter" wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:53:02 -0700, "gx"
>> <gx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >It seems that my harddisk light is always on. Within only three hours, the
>> >"svchost.exe" process has made more than 2.5 gigabytes I/O read and write.
>> >With the help of procexp.exe (from www.sysinternals.com), I found that those
>> >I/O operations are actually caused by one instance of svchost.exe, i.e.
>> >"scvhost -k netsvcs". Is there anyone who is familiar with this?
>> >
>> >BTW: The OS system is windows XP, SP1 with all patches.
>> >
>> >Thanks!
>>
>> I have the same problem so I would be very grateful if you could post
>> any solution you find!
>>
>> --
>>
>> John Latter
>>
>> Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
>> http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html
>>
>> 'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech
>>

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John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech
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