Svchost.exe being High?

[doclabtec]

So I have 4GB ram, and sometime svchost.exe goes really high,it takes like 1,5GB of my ram. But I disabled the Wersvc Service, it was because of Wersvc so I had to disable it. Is it risky for this to be disabled? I mean my computer seems to work fine,but still maybe later it will cause some driver loss or something?

[Sintezza]

This is a well known bug in Windows7.

This is caused by a memory leak bug in the wsus update client.

There are few patches from MS that fixes this issue.

They basicly install a new version of the wsus update client.

But the problem with this, is that the newest version of the wsus update client also prepairs Windows10 upgrade, and listing telemetry crap updates and keyloggers ready to shove into your Windows 7 machine.

 

I have the same issue, sometimes the ram ussage gets back to normal after 2 hours.

But i also had a few occasions that it took more then 5+ hours.

Luckely for me, i have 16GB of ram, so it doesnt hurt me at all.

But with only 4GB your pretty much screwed.

 

There are 2 ways to fix this issue.

 

1: installing one of the first patches that MS broaght out for this problem last year.

I will look up the exact KB number in a second.

 

2: just disable auto update, and search for updates.

[Sintezza]

KB3050265 was the first patch that MS broaght out in June last year,

To fix the memory leak issue with the wsus update client.

 

After Windows10 was launched MS broaght out a couple of new patches for the update client.

The latest was released recently somewhere earlier this year.

April or March.

Exact numbers need to look them up again, but with a wild google hit you will find them yourself aswell.

[JakeNTech]

that's normal. Svchost could be anything as in task manager description is just host for windows services. It could be windows update, windows defender, office etc. Its not that bad on the 32bit version of windows but I get that people want to use the 64bit version. But if you only have 4GB of ram then I would go 32 bit. Ram usage is low and it is more stable.

[Sintezza]

10 minutes ago, fixitnow said:

that's normal. Svchost could be anything as in task manager description is just host for windows services. It could be windows update, windows defender, office etc. Its not that bad on the 32bit version of windows but I get that people want to use the 64bit version. But if you only have 4GB of ram then I would go 32 bit. Ram usage is low and it is more stable.

The problem that TS describes is the well known memory leak bug in the wsus update client.

Its currently consuming 1.8GB of my ram lol.

But yeah i got 16GB of ram, so i personaly dont bother with installing a new version of the wsus update client, that will try to shove windows10 crap into my system.

[JakeNTech]

I totally understand. The windows 10 update is now being forced on people. But as you have alot of ram then its really not worth it to get rid of the bug. But if you have limited ram then it might be worth trying to fight the windows 10 notifications and update

[doclabtec]

47 minutes ago, Sintezza said:

This is a well known bug in Windows7.

This is caused by a memory leak bug in the wsus update client.

There are few patches from MS that fixes this issue.

They basicly install a new version of the wsus update client.

But the problem with this, is that the newest version of the wsus update client also prepairs Windows10 upgrade, and listing telemetry crap updates and keyloggers ready to shove into your Windows 7 machine.

 

I have the same issue, sometimes the ram ussage gets back to normal after 2 hours.

But i also had a few occasions that it took more then 5+ hours.

Luckely for me, i have 16GB of ram, so it doesnt hurt me at all.

But with only 4GB your pretty much screwed.

 

There are 2 ways to fix this issue.

 

1: installing one of the first patches that MS broaght out for this problem last year.

I will look up the exact KB number in a second.

 

2: just disable auto update, and search for updates.

 

41 minutes ago, Sintezza said:

KB3050265 was the first patch that MS broaght out in June last year,

To fix the memory leak issue with the wsus update client.

 

After Windows10 was launched MS broaght out a couple of new patches for the update client.

The latest was released recently somewhere earlier this year.

April or March.

Exact numbers need to look them up again, but with a wild google hit you will find them yourself aswell.

 

8 minutes ago, fixitnow said:

I totally understand. The windows 10 update is now being forced on people. But as you have alot of ram then its really not worth it to get rid of the bug. But if you have limited ram then it might be worth trying to fight the windows 10 notifications and update

Alright,thanks for help  .

 

And yes,this is very true,Microsoft is forcing us to get Windows 10, I know its free and everything, but I dislike some features, for an example ruining my privacy which sucks. Also some games, I mean old games are not compatible with Windows 10 . So yeah,thank you guys

[JakeNTech]

you could get windows 10 and get a windows 7 or xp virtual machine but to be honest there is no point. I think there is a way to download individual updates but I don't really know how as I have never needed to. And there is loads of bugs still. In a few years windows 10 will be quite good but at the moment is is not that good. The only real advantages are dx12 but for old games its pointless

[Sintezza]

21 minutes ago, doclabtec said:

 

 

Alright,thanks for help  .

 

And yes,this is very true,Microsoft is forcing us to get Windows 10, I know its free and everything, but I dislike some features, for an example ruining my privacy which sucks. Also some games, I mean old games are not compatible with Windows 10 . So yeah,thank you guys

You you could fix it the easy way by just change your windows update settings to *never search for updates*

And then restart the computer.

If you would like to search for updates manualy, you could eventualy enable the search for updates once a week or whatever.

It does not realy hurt you anything if you have the search for updates disabled.

But ofc keep you anti virus, anti malware solutions etc up to date.

 

Another option like i sugggested above installing the KB patch.

This could fix the issue, but i have not tested it myself yet to give any confirmation on the fix.

That older KB3050265 patch has been replaced by several newer versions of the wsus update client.

But those newer versions of the update client, prepair windows10 and trying to backport its shit.

 

Unfortunatly MS is doing all the things they could.

To poison current Windows 7 / 8.x systems.

Untill at point of no return probably.

[JakeNTech]

Microsoft don't want another windows XP moment when support ends for 7 and 7/8.1

[Sintezza]

3 minutes ago, fixitnow said:

Microsoft don't want another windows XP moment when support ends for 7 and 7/8.1

I allready had 4 laptops in for a complete re-install because MS had showed their windows10 crap in their working machines.

And made it to never boot up again.

Those people were unable to do their work without their machines.

Thanks to this MS BS.

And it caused me several hours re-installing those laptops with windows7.

Its just garbage.

[JakeNTech]

9 minutes ago, Sintezza said:

I allready had 4 laptops in for a complete re-install because MS had showed their windows10 crap in their working machines.

And made it to never boot up again.

Those people were unable to do their work without their machines.

Thanks to this MS BS.

And it caused me several hours re-installing those laptops with windows7.

Its just garbage.

yeah. Like I said the only advantage is dx12 and for windows 8 users its a nicer start menu from the whole screen tat. And cortana but who uses that? As I own a windows phone I only use cortana to ask her stupid questions as you

[Sintezza]

17 minutes ago, fixitnow said:

yeah. Like I said the only advantage is dx12 and for windows 8 users its a nicer start menu from the whole screen tat. And cortana but who uses that? As I own a windows phone I only use cortana to ask her stupid questions as you

 

Yeah hopefully DX12 will be a large fail.

And that Vulkan is going to be the next big thing.

This will make switching platforms for gamers allot easier.

And with both Nvidia and AMD having their interests in Vulkan, i exaly could see it happen in the near future.

Maybe the end of Windows being the absolute number 1 for desktop OSses.

 

Nvidia pascal still doesnt perform that hot on DX12 so yeah who knows.

At their GTX1080 presentation, they showed DOOM4 running on open CL.

And it got a massive good performance.

Which makes me think that Nvidia might exaly be more interested in supporting Vulkan development instead of DX12.

At the recent AMD presentation of Polaris, they did a short interview with the devs of DOOM4, they said that they are currently working on Vulkan patches for the game.

And that they saw allot of advantages in that api.

This all sounds like music to my ears.

Not sure about yours?

 

But if Vulkan is going to be more widly adopted by the bigger AAA game developers.

It will be allot easier for them to backport their games to multiple platforms.

And that is exaly one of the bigger advantages that Vulkan has, its cross platform.

More platforms, means wider target market, means more profit for game developers in the end.

And yeah Nvidia has their hands in the the pants by allot of the bigger AAA game devs.