svchost = resource friendly?

[IHAVEAQUESTION]

I wonder why my laptop runs so many of them in task manager? Most of the processes use less than 4mb of memory but the big ones are using 10mb and 38mb. Keep in mind, I've disabled the software and choose to run it only when I feel like to. So I don't understand why it's still hogging on my memory. Is this normal to everyone else?

 

[Nothinman]

IIRC tasklist /svc should tell you what's inside each svchost process.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
IIRC tasklist /svc should tell you what's inside each svchost process.

Only in Pro, home will not work IIRC.

You could always use Microsoft's Process Explorer to see what is up:
http://www.microsoft.com/techn...s/ProcessExplorer.mspx

 

[IHAVEAQUESTION]

Could someone with svchost installed check this on their computer? I want to make sure this is normal to everyone else.

 

[thetxstang]

I just checked on my system (Windows XP Home SP2) and I only have five instances of svchost.exe running. In case you're interested, one of those is Local Service, two are Network Services, and two are System services.

And as stated above, on Windows XP Home, there is not a default way to view what's inside of each svchost.exe process.

 

[Nothinman]

Only in Pro, home will not work IIRC.

If so that's a pretty retarded restriction.

Could someone with svchost installed check this on their computer? I want to make sure this is normal to everyone else.

What you ask is impossible, everyone with Windows has svchost and the number and sizes of them is dependent on what you have installed.

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: IHAVEAQUESTION
I wonder why my laptop runs so many of them in task manager? Most of the processes use less than 4mb of memory but the big ones are using 10mb and 38mb. Keep in mind, I've disabled the software and choose to run it only when I feel like to. So I don't understand why it's still hogging on my memory. Is this normal to everyone else?

You've disabled what software? All svhost does is load and pass control to DLLs (libraries) that have been written to implement Windows XP services. The individual DLLs determine what the process actually does, and how much memory it requires. The svhost host process is used for a bunch of different XP services, and as Nothinman pointed out, how many instances you have going depends entirely on how your XP installation is currently configured.