CPU Drainage question?

[flag4]

hi hunters

does any one have an idea about svchost.exe

i can not describe the frustration this B****** is causing me and the other monsters .exe that suddenly suck the ******* life from my system!!

i have been on the web and tried the patch that was supposed to come from Windows to stop this but it has not worked. closing them down in task manager is a no-no as they are essential to the systems running.

any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

it is not a virus or malware it is part of windows operating system..

it really is an :damn:ing nuissance.

i do have gamebooster for the other stuff and i do shut off the internet connection.

anyway, im back off down to Freetown now...cheers

[Paul Riley]

It is in fact part of the windows operating system and there should be about 4 instances of this running in the background.Disabling this could cause system instability so I would recommend leaving them alone.The fact that you say they are seriously draining CPU usage means it COULD be malware or a virus because the normal windows versions of this file dont sap that much CPU time,and take up about about 2-3MB worth of system memory.
I would get hold of 2 freeware programs I use for removing malware,they are:

Adaware
Spybot search and destroy

Perform a full system scan with these and remove all entries that are discovered.
If all else fails it may be worth your while doing a full hard drive format to remove anything burrowed into your OS.This is like nuking your hard drive but its the only way to remove unwanted things that wont go any other way.Backup all important data before formatting.
Also,adding more memory to your system could alleviate some of the memory problems you may be experiencing with this service running.

Its a fact that most of the services running are a pain in the arse and some of them are not even needed.This is bloatware at its best,courtesy of Microsoft.

Hope some of this helps.

[flakmonkey]

Try here for a brief overview of what it is and what you can do about it
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-svchostexe-and-why-is-it-running/

Personally ive never come accross any problem with the multiple open svchost processes since they generally give up the memory/cpu time when a higher priority app like a game is opened.

You could perhaps try manually setting sh3 or whatever else to a higher priority via task manager, hopefully that will have an effect.

[flag4]

thanks Kaleu's

think it will always be a problem - and im begining to wonder if it is not my hard drive giving up: after all the machine is five years old. there are other probs too. but sometimes its alright. i can go for hours and nothing, then suddenly ZAPP my cpu is gone, frame rate dissapears - everything stops for tea!

i usually press pause and leave it untill all is settled down. but this is a nuissance if i am mid attack or just generally enjoying everything.

have tried to rise the priority for sh3 in task manager:salute: but i dont think it has changed anything: the monsters of .exe still gobble it all suddenly.

also have done spybot:salute: ran the check and it did come up with something but nothing worrying. have also got Bitdefender and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware thingy too, they have all picked up nothing harmful, so i dont know?

thanks for your help:yep:

[Kremmen]

Dunno if this will help but might be worth just checking.In the control panel,double click on the system icon.In the system properties box select the advanced tab.There you will see the performance settings button,hit that,then in the performance options box select the advanced tab and check that under the processor scheduling and memory usage options that programs and not background services are given priority.

[flag4]

Dunno if this will help but might be worth just checking.In the control panel,double click on the system icon.In the system properties box select the advanced tab.There you will see the performance settings button,hit that,then in the performance options box select the advanced tab and check that under the processor scheduling and memory usage options that programs and not background services are given priority.

im a little bit cidcer'd at the moment ( can we have a drunken icon please), but will check this out in the morrow!

cheers - hick:ping:!!

[flag4]

Dunno if this will help but might be worth just checking.In the control panel,double click on the system icon.In the system properties box select the advanced tab.There you will see the performance settings button,hit that,then in the performance options box select the advanced tab and check that under the processor scheduling and memory usage options that programs and not background services are given priority.


hi Kremmen, thank you for this, i have checked it out and all is right...

...just think the ol' hard drive is slowin' down.

cheers:yep:

[PappyCain]

Try enditall before you fire up the game - you should be able to find it on the internet.

"install utilities usually tell you to shut down all other tasks while they're operating. Other programs demand so much of your system's computing power that any concurrently running tasks will impact their performance. On today's powerful systems, you easily can have a dozen or more programs loaded at any given time. Shutting them down manually is tedious and time-consuming. EndItAll 2 lists all the programs running on your system, and lets you decide which ones to close down. The processes necessary for basic system operation are protected from termination. From the remaining processes, you can choose which to close, which to kill (close down forcibly), and which to protect. Once you know which files you want to shut down, you can configure EndItAll for automatic action via script or batch file. This is useful for backups and defrags during off-hours. Options let you block power management and the screen saver during operation."

[pickinthebanjo]

If all else fails it may be worth your while doing a full hard drive format to remove anything burrowed into your OS.This is like nuking your hard drive but its the only way to remove unwanted things that wont go any other way.Backup all important data before formatting.
Also,adding more memory to your system could alleviate some of the memory problems you may be experiencing with this service running..

Thats great advice for all pc users. I've been thinking of doing it just to get half the crap I either forgot about or couldn't remove for some reason. I tend to do this every time my computer starts giving me trouble (first time on this computer. 1-2yrs old?)

Adding RAM is always good. Hey if you got the slots you may as well fill'em right?

What OP are you using?

[Threesixtyci]

It's part of windows, but viruses do use it to hide, too. I think it's mostly uses for internet/networking functions.

I had a problem with that executable once. Turned out to be a memory leak due to SBC's install program of their 2wire modem/router that they sold to me.... Somewhere, between now and then, (been using SBC DSL service for about 7 years.), they finally patched the software. But until then, I had uninstalled that 2wire program so that the SVChost executable would no longer bloat itself to massive memory sizes. (it was eating all my system ram...)

From what I could tell that 2wire program was a firewall program that also was able to adjust the (firmware?) embedded options for the modem. Such as changing the WEP password, turning on and off the wireless function, and such things. Really had nothing to do with my actual DSL service. So, I uninstalled it....

[flag4]

Try enditall before you fire up the game - you should be able to find it on the internet.


"install utilities usually tell you to shut down all other tasks while they're operating. Other programs demand so much of your system's computing power that any concurrently running tasks will impact their performance. On today's powerful systems, you easily can have a dozen or more programs loaded at any given time. Shutting them down manually is tedious and time-consuming. EndItAll 2 lists all the programs running on your system, and lets you decide which ones to close down. The processes necessary for basic system operation are protected from termination. From the remaining processes, you can choose which to close, which to kill (close down forcibly), and which to protect. Once you know which files you want to shut down, you can configure EndItAll for automatic action via script or batch file. This is useful for backups and defrags during off-hours. Options let you block power management and the screen saver during operation."



thanks PappyCain, i do have GameBooster which aleviates the problem a little more...

...it has been happening now...CPU gobbled up by svchost.exe..75%. i have done numerous scans with all sorts of software and i dont have a virus or something similar: so god knows?

i think a serious formating of the hard drive is coming in the not so distant future:yep:

[PappyCain]

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-svchostexe-and-why-is-it-running/

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-9865052-12.html

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

AND read below regarding 'indexing' issues:

http://a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6811&start=210

[Flopper]

You can look under scheduled tasks, too. I just noticed a daily command line job I have running from there showed up as svchost in the title bar of the command window. Might be a long shot, but anything beats having to flatline a drive, imo.