Svchost Memory Leak in Windows 2003 sp1

[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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[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

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 (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.

 

[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