Questions tagged [svchost]
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The W3SVC service on Server2012R2 failed to stop in the timeout period
Our Devs are trying to do a "push" and it is failing on a single IIS server (running Windows Server 2012 R2) because the push is unable to stop the WWW Publishing Service (W3SVC). We have been rebooting the Svr2012R2 VM as a workaround fix to the…
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Limit services hosted by one svchost.exe under Windows XP?
Is there a registry setting or something to limit the number of individual services that are run within a single svchost.exe process?
I'm aware of the WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS flag and the sc application's ability to make individual services run in their…
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svchost suddenly overloading CPU on many servers
it seems that on many servers (w2k8 and w2k12) in our environment suddenly svchost hosting Dhcp, EventLog, lmhosts, Wcmsvc services started to use 1 CPU core by 100%. Sometimes it is also WmiPrvSe. It all seems to have started on Saturday 7pm (CET)…
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SvcHost CPU usage jumps from service to service in netsvcs group
Hopefully this is a variation on the previous svchost.exe troubleshooting questions.
We initially got reports of slow performance on a number of Windows 7
PCs. Resource Monitor showed that the IP Helper Service was consuming
a large amount of…
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Who is reading my hard drive? (svchost)
I am using Windows 7 Pro. Using Process Monitor tool I see that Windows is constantly reading stuff and writing stuff to the hard drive.
Most of the time under Process Name I can see what program is reading what. I am not always happy about what…
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Memory consumption by "svchost.exe -k netsvcs" on Windows 2008 R2 SP1
We have a number of servers (Windows 2008 R2 SP1) with "svchost.exe -k netsvcs" regularly occupying ~1Gb of memory and that's too much. All servers are primarily application servers w/o IIS or MS SQL installed.
I'm just wondering where do I start…
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How to find out CPU usage of DLLs within an instance of svchost.exe
My Windows Server 2008 R2 should be almost idle, yet it's taking about 12-15% CPU almost all the time. The busy process is an instance of svchost.exe
Using SvcHost Process Analyser, I've established that the services running in this process are as…
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svchost.exe runs at 90% CPU, tasklist /svc shows RpcSs is the culprit
I'm running Windows Server 2003 Standard (Much to my distaste), I've applied all the security updates and now I'm stuck with a box that's constantly being hammered by svchost.
The process ID is always around the 700 mark and if I use tasklist /svc,…
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Why does svchost.exe gradually consume more and more CPU on a Server 2016 Domain Controller?
We have a physical server that is running Windows Server 2016 and is acting as a domain controller. We are monitoring several services/parameters on this server via Nagios/Check MK and are noticing that Nagios is reporting svchost.exe is gradually…
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