RE: svchost.exe netsvcs is eating up all memory



"Jen" wrote:

does anyone know about or have this issue? it is happening on many xp
machines and I can't find mention of it anywhere. I tried stopping services
in this process and it has no affect and never gives back memory. the only
thing that gives memory back is to kill the main process by pid for
svchost.exe netsvcs or to reboot the machine. the problem reappears in
about a week when the memory is consumed agaion.

Well Svchost.exe netsvcs is a group of services runing in the background
like netman, rasman, remoteaccess, SENS..etc...
So you need to see what process is eating the CPU usage, like if you have
AVs, windows updates engine, another third-party application (s) want to get
updates and all of these runing process lay under the Generic Hosts process
Svchost.exe and not releasing the memory because they didn't finish what
they suppose to do.
also it could be asign of infection of either Viral or malwares infection so
if you have Anti-virus scan in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
Try to download Autorun and see what runing inthe background to determine
the culprit;
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Autoruns.mspx
You can have a look in the registry to see how many services belong to the
svchost.exe, to access it do this:
Open Run and type in: regedit.exe click [OK]
On the Registry Editor locate this KEY:
[-] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Svchost.exe = look in the Right you will see somethingn
like this:
Netsvcs REG_MULTI_SZ netman, rasman,
Remoteaccess......
HTH.
Regards,
nass
.

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