Extreme memory leak windows 7 svchost.exe

So this is the Service

Shitty svchost.exe

Here's what happens after I press "go to services"

What it goes to

Matthew Wang

Posted 2015-09-13T05:08:10.500

Reputation: 33

if you can repro this memory usage grow, use the WPT to capture 2-3 minutes of the memory usage grow (http://pastebin.com/yLvYak6n) and share it

– magicandre1981 – 2015-09-13T06:23:45.570

possible duplicate of How do I troubleshoot high 'svchost.exe' usage in Windows 7?

– DavidPostill – 2015-09-13T08:12:33.940

@DavidPostill the dup link i wrong. Your dup talks about CPU usage and not memory. – magicandre1981 – 2015-09-13T15:47:47.147

Happened to me also. I just end tasked it. Nothing bad happened. – Overmind – 2017-04-13T08:07:44.717

Answers

Windows Update Client for Windows 7: June 2015 (KB3050265) contains a fix for the issue that Zee is having with netsvcs, I’m not sure how effective it really is across the board but I’ve had success on multiple installs. The problem that Matthew is having looks to be different judging by the second screenshot; without looking into it further it's hard to say, but I’d give the fix from Microsoft a try before troubleshooting further.

hydra

Posted 2015-09-13T05:08:10.500

Reputation: 54

Not a bad answer, but please be sure to provide fuller context to your observations. Yes, an update like this might show up automatically in a software update notice, but still… Context helps clear things up for all users. Even those who might have software updating disabled. – JakeGould – 2015-09-14T00:19:11.327

this pictures shows that WindowsUpdate is not started by this svchost.exe – magicandre1981 – 2015-09-15T04:32:55.060

After I installed this, it fixed my issue as well. – Matthew Wang – 2015-09-15T22:15:10.507

if it is fixed, mark the reply as answer. – magicandre1981 – 2015-09-16T15:45:09.997

you rock, I dont understand why this answer has so very low points, you deserve a 10000+ – MacGyver – 2016-03-27T20:28:48.430

This has been happening to me, and a lot of people I know. You can remedy to it (until your next reboot) by going to the Resource Monitor (Task Manager > Performance Tab > Resource Monitor) and right clicking the svchost.exe (netsvc) service, and analyze the wait chain :

Ending both processes should fix it. Until you restart your computer, and have to remedy to it again once it happens. I apologize for not knowing why is this happening, it's especially suspicious since it's not just a few people that are suffering from it.

Zee

Posted 2015-09-13T05:08:10.500

Reputation: 109

I tried doing this and it said that "Svchost.exe is working normally" – Matthew Wang – 2015-09-13T05:22:13.547

Is the netsvcs service the one taking up all your memory too? Or another one? Is that one working normally? – Zee – 2015-09-13T05:26:01.637

netsvcs? It's just the svchost one. – Matthew Wang – 2015-09-13T05:44:54.947

Svchost is short for service host, it hosts different services (if you look in my picture, you'll see 9 different services under the same process svchost.exe) you just need to stop the service that takes up all your memory. – Zee – 2015-09-13T06:00:06.947