Zeranimus Posted September 28, 2007 CID Share Posted September 28, 2007 OK, So the problem is for some reason my SVChost.exe process (PID 1580) is spiking CPU consumption to about 30-60% every 3-6 seconds. This might not seem like a problem but scanning my computer now takes significantly longer and many games incur lag spikes every 3-6 seconds (very annoying). I've seen a few other people with the error but have yet to find a solution thats works. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me System Info. OS: XP SP2 Professional 32 bit CPU: AMD 64 3800+ GCPU: Nvidia 6800GT 256 Mb RAM: 1.5GB Services run by PID 1580 include: AudioSrv, Browser, CryptSvc, Dhcp, dmserver, ERSvc, EventSystem, FastUserSwitchingComp., HidServ, lanmanserver, lanmanworkstation, Netman, Nla, NwSapAgent,RasMan, Schedule, seclogon, SENS, SharedAccess, ShellHWDetection, srservice, TapiSrv, TrkWks, W32Time, winmgmt, wscsvc, wuauserv, WZCSVC It only recently started acting this way, not sure what changed in that time but nothing major. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jared Posted September 29, 2007 CID Share Posted September 29, 2007 Hey Zeranimus, Welcome to the forums. This particular "SVCHost.exe" is quite possibly a virus. Check out this website: http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/svchost/ Try doing some of the things they suggest on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostmaster Posted September 29, 2007 CID Share Posted September 29, 2007 Also, check out this thread, and the link at the end of it... http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=19438.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeranimus Posted September 30, 2007 Author CID Share Posted September 30, 2007 So, I did a bunch of virus scans they all came back negative so I'm pretty sure its not a virus. However I think it might be a memory leak. The page size of Svchost appears to continually grow upwards of 500K =C. The memory count is never less than 36K, its at least the 3rd highest on my list if I'm running a game. However another possibility is that it might be a problem with my memory as within a few hours SvcHost (no other programs though) easily exceeds 5 million page faults. Thinking about it I might just be spending way to much time doing OS + mem operations. How would I narrow it down and test each of these individually to tell which one is the true cause? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutehacker Posted October 25, 2007 CID Share Posted October 25, 2007 I think it is a Trojan. Try to see again if it is SVCH0ST( 0 here = Zero) not SVCHOST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostmaster Posted October 25, 2007 CID Share Posted October 25, 2007 Did you try the link I posted? The error causes a memory leak, and runs the CPU high. Run the update and see if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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