Poutnik
Mon Apr 14 21:40:33 PDT 2008
In article <eDxkbxnnIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>, Mon, 14 Apr 2008
17:08:13 -0500 philo says...
>
> "Gordon" <Sorry@Noaddress.Com> wrote in message
> news:ulf504dfkpuaa9cmk50popnseqjqfab58g@4ax.com...
> > On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:19:30 -0500, "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >"Gordon" <Sorry@Noaddress.Com> wrote in message
> > >news:r595045tp5ibkls3r97ru4ffdc4sc9f15i@4ax.com...
> > >> This is a new (clean) installation and it seems as if
> > >> the hard drive is running all the time.
> > >>
> > >> I checked the Windows Task Manager and there is
> > >> one process, svchost.exe running in multiple instances
> > >> and has a high CPU usage at times.
> > >>
> > >> I checked Google and this appears to be a common
> > >> problem (I hope) but I am not clear about the solution.
> > >>
> > >> Is there a solution for this?
> > >>
> > >> Thank you
> > >>
> > >> Gordon
> > >>
> > >
> > >Some system specs would be helpful...
> > >For example, if your machine does not have enough RAM there may be
> constant
> > >harddrive activity due to the pagefile being accessed.
> > >
> > >In general 128megs of RAM would be a bare minimum for win2k...
> > >but 256megs or more would be desirable.
> > >
> > >If it's an older machine with a slow harddrive... 128 megs will not be
> > >enough
> > >
> > >
> > >It's normal for there to be several instances of svchost.exe
> running...and a
> > >typical memory usage would be
> > >
> > >5 - 20 k
> > >
> > >Do you see any process taking considerably more than 25k of memory?
> > >
> >
> > Hi Philo,
> >
> > a. The system has 256 MB RAM. Swap file at 500 - 750MB.
> >
> > b. Memory usage I have seen as high as 26k but most are as you
> > said 5 - 20 k.
> >
> > c Without any applications running I just counted four instances of
> > svchost.exe running.
> >
> > d. CPU usage is mostly around 1 - 5% - but I have seen it go as high
> > as 95%.
> >
> >
> > Gordon
> >
> >
>
>
> With 256megs of RAM you should be plenty good
> all I can think of would be to open up taskmanager and see if anything has
> spiked up
> to correspond with the high cpu usage
>
>
>
I would suggest monitoring disk operations
with utility ProcMon by Sysinternals ( now MS ).
First try to use filter with usage
"operation contains writefile" as monitored action.
Some apps like logging all the time.
or some desktop searches or indexing services makes indexing.
if unsuccesfull, try other possibilities, procmon is feature rich....