Re: Services.exe spikes CPU on net up/down by red
red
Mon Dec 17 13:34:22 PST 2007
On Dec 14, 8:25 am, red floyd <redfl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd been playing around with various firewalls, seeing which I liked
> the best. I decided against either of them (they both BSOD'ed on
> me). Now, when I bring my network interface (or my company VPN
> interface) up or down, SERVICES.EXE spikes the CPU at 100%.
>
> The firewalls in question were COMODO and ZoneAlarm. I made sure to
> uninstall the old one before trying the new one.
>
Found the problem(s).
1. COMODO had left some crap lying around even after I removed it. No
biggie, but the problem still remained.
After some more digging, I found the solution.
2. DNS Client Service (DNSCache). f/george wrote:
>Windows is downright
> stupid sometimes, this sounds like one of them. There should be
> several networking services that are set to automatic on your system.
>These are probably those starting and stopping, depending on what you
>are doing.
This was exactly it. DNS Client Services was spiking the CPU.
Disabled it (I don't really need the DNS cache anyways), and CPU usage
dropped to normal when changing state of a network interface.