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> my work machine with 32GB of RAM is constantly being eaten alive by svchost.exe and the only thing I can do is reboot once a day Maybe you're self-employed a

> my work machine with 32GB of RAM is constantly being eaten alive by svchost.exe and the only thing I can do is reboot once a day Maybe you're self-employed and unsuccessful in troubleshooting this yourself, but that sounds like a five-minutes-with-a-first-line-support-technician problem. If you don't have a tech support department to turn to (or if they are incompetent), investigate the process with ProcessExplorer from Sysinternals to find out what that service host process is running and go from there. The industry is still on Windows because it's easier to manage in a corporate setting. And usually better for software compatibility.

sidewndr46 3y ago
This presupposes that identifying the problem is the 1st step to fixing it. In many professional settings, convincing someone that the problem needs to be fixed is the actual problem to solve. I had a near equivalent problem where my Windows desktop was brought to its knees by an instance of Glassfish running on it by some sort of policy. We did embedded development, low level stuff like data plane processing via FPGA. Internal IT spent 1/2 an hour trying to convince me that Glassfish was an essential part of my development stack. I never bothered to convince them to solve the morning 9 AM virus scan of every file on disk. I just hung out in the break room for the 45 minutes it took while the UI was almost totally useless
- vundercind 3y ago
  At some point you just have to accept that if an employer really, really, really insists on paying you to do nothing while they prevent you from using a vital tool they issued you... well, that must be what they want. They're paying the bills and are in control of that entire chain of decision-making, after all. Let 'em pay for it if that's what they want.
  - ClumsyPilot 3y ago
    That’s an infantile attitude, you are suppose to take responsibility for your work environment. Speak to the manager of your manager, and if that doesn’t work, to the manager of the manager of the manager. If that does not work, write a handwritten letter to the CEO and deliver it. If the CRO knew about this, they would definitely fix it! Don’t forget a a wax seal, they love those!
    - vundercind 3y ago
      Oh, you should try. I just don't think heroic efforts are in order. If you say "hey, this thing is wasting a bunch of my time, are you sure you want to do that?" and they say "yes"... well, alright.
atlas_hugged 3y ago
Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, help desk just wants to reimage rather than troubleshoot and I don’t have the time available to wait for that lately. Yeah I poked around a little with procmon and procexp64, but definitely not enough. Actually that reminds me, I right-clicked the svchost instance using the most memory and noticed the restart option, I was in an “f it” mood, so I clicked restart to see what would explode. Didn’t seem to have any negative effect that I could notice at the time. Memory usage instantly dropped by 6GB. It was a nice and quick buy me some time trick.

sidewndr46 3y ago

This presupposes that identifying the problem is the 1st step to fixing it. In many professional settings, convincing someone that the problem needs to be fixed is the actual problem to solve. I had a near equivalent problem where my Windows desktop was brought to its knees by an instance of Glassfish running on it by some sort of policy. We did embedded development, low level stuff like data plane processing via FPGA. Internal IT spent 1/2 an hour trying to convince me that Glassfish was an essential part of my development stack. I never bothered to convince them to solve the morning 9 AM virus scan of every file on disk. I just hung out in the break room for the 45 minutes it took while the UI was almost totally useless

vundercind 3y ago
At some point you just have to accept that if an employer really, really, really insists on paying you to do nothing while they prevent you from using a vital tool they issued you... well, that must be what they want. They're paying the bills and are in control of that entire chain of decision-making, after all. Let 'em pay for it if that's what they want.
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago
  That’s an infantile attitude, you are suppose to take responsibility for your work environment. Speak to the manager of your manager, and if that doesn’t work, to the manager of the manager of the manager. If that does not work, write a handwritten letter to the CEO and deliver it. If the CRO knew about this, they would definitely fix it! Don’t forget a a wax seal, they love those!
  - vundercind 3y ago
    Oh, you should try. I just don't think heroic efforts are in order. If you say "hey, this thing is wasting a bunch of my time, are you sure you want to do that?" and they say "yes"... well, alright.

atlas_hugged 3y ago

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, help desk just wants to reimage rather than troubleshoot and I don’t have the time available to wait for that lately. Yeah I poked around a little with procmon and procexp64, but definitely not enough. Actually that reminds me, I right-clicked the svchost instance using the most memory and noticed the restart option, I was in an “f it” mood, so I clicked restart to see what would explode. Didn’t seem to have any negative effect that I could notice at the time. Memory usage instantly dropped by 6GB. It was a nice and quick buy me some time trick.