Erroneous activity

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Danny

But thanks to the Performance Information and Tools feature I've tracked the
culprit down;

For some curious reason, I am getting a lot of unexplained activity, disk
activity etc, from the SVCHOST.exe [localservicenetworkrestricted] module.

It goes pretty mad at boot, and keeps it up for a good while, before
eventually calming down. Then thereafter randomly kicks in again.

What is the reason for this and can I prevent it?

Thanks.
 
havent you been readin this group? its obviously the NSA reading and copying
all of your files!!!!

LOL

dopes
 
Hello,

- Find the PID of the instance of SVCHOST as shown in reliability and
performance monitor
- Open task manager (right-click taskbar and click Task Manager)
- Click the services tab
- Click the PID header to sort by PID
- Match the PID(s) listed in task manager with the PID of the svchost
causing th e problems

If you're lucky, there will only be one service living inside of the SVCHOST
that is causing problems. However, most SVCHOSTs have many services living
inside of them, and there is no easy way to determine which one is causing
the disk usage (that I am aware of).

However, most likely this is normal, and may be part of the indexer or some
other disk-intensive service that is doing stuff. The performance monitor
will tell you at what priority the disk writes are happening at; if it is
set to low, then you should not worry about it that much - that setting will
give precedence to anything you are doing, so it shouldn't slow down
anything you are doing.


- JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
 
Danny said:
But thanks to the Performance Information and Tools feature I've tracked
the culprit down;

For some curious reason, I am getting a lot of unexplained activity, disk
activity etc, from the SVCHOST.exe [localservicenetworkrestricted] module.

It goes pretty mad at boot, and keeps it up for a good while, before
eventually calming down. Then thereafter randomly kicks in again.

What is the reason for this and can I prevent it?

Thanks.
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Try running Process Explorer and Process Monitor to see if you can find out
what is causing this.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/processmonitor.mspx

Usually between the two of them you can figure out what is happening in the
different svchost instances.
 
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