Sunday, June 12, 2011

Win7 x64 memory leak (svchost.exe)

I'm being plagued by high memory utilization by the svchost.exe process on my win7x64.

Based on what I'm reading on the net, couple of things that I'm trying -
1) Turning off the weather gadget on the desktop
2) Turning off homegroup
These two things have not completely fixed the issue, but have definitely reduced the bleeding memory footprint tha was exceeding 1Gb.

Update - been on chat support for one hour - deleted temp & prefetch files. Problem exists. Rebooted in safe mode, memory utilization is okay

1 comments:

Ritesh said...

BTW, what is it like, as a tech savvy user, to debug a Windows OS for a memory leak issue?

I'm sure there are tools. But I'm sure there is no clean readable output. How did you (and people you seeked) go about root causing the issue?


I had a similar issue on my Windows 7 if you remember. The BSoD issue. Surprisingly, WHQL drivers are also buggy. I've already talked about my experience here, in the comments section: http://www.researchut.com/site/virtualbox-native-partition