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Anybody else seeing this?
https://social.technet.microsoft.co...fd1a5b4/windows-update-scan-high-memory-usage
For the last couple of months I have been seeing 2gig windows 7 machines coming in droves. WU svchost process will eat .75 to 2G of ram for extended periods of time. Computer becomes unusable.
I am seeing this behavior on about 30% of all windows machines coming in, but machine with 4+ GB of memory seem to plow through it better.
It seems to affect people that shut their computer down all the time the worst, because it tends to start happening within 5 minutes of boot. Machine I just put on the bench went 30 minutes before memory dropped back down.
Some suggested work-arounds are running windows update in its own svchost like this:
sc config wuauserv type= own
On some machines it helps, but many it does not.
Supposedly MS is working on a patch, but this has been going on for months now.
I would suspect many of you might not even be aware this is happening. For me personally, these days I do not pay alot of attention to memory use. I start my automated tools, walk away, and by the time I go hands on the machine, the issue is dormant. My techs at my other store started complaining about it a couple of weeks before I started to notice. Then one day I had 6 2G Dell Vostros come in, in one day, all complaining about the same symptoms. A week later had a church singing songs and powerpoint slides were taking 10 seconds to change on an i7 with 2G
https://social.technet.microsoft.co...fd1a5b4/windows-update-scan-high-memory-usage
For the last couple of months I have been seeing 2gig windows 7 machines coming in droves. WU svchost process will eat .75 to 2G of ram for extended periods of time. Computer becomes unusable.
I am seeing this behavior on about 30% of all windows machines coming in, but machine with 4+ GB of memory seem to plow through it better.
It seems to affect people that shut their computer down all the time the worst, because it tends to start happening within 5 minutes of boot. Machine I just put on the bench went 30 minutes before memory dropped back down.
Some suggested work-arounds are running windows update in its own svchost like this:
sc config wuauserv type= own
On some machines it helps, but many it does not.
Supposedly MS is working on a patch, but this has been going on for months now.
I would suspect many of you might not even be aware this is happening. For me personally, these days I do not pay alot of attention to memory use. I start my automated tools, walk away, and by the time I go hands on the machine, the issue is dormant. My techs at my other store started complaining about it a couple of weeks before I started to notice. Then one day I had 6 2G Dell Vostros come in, in one day, all complaining about the same symptoms. A week later had a church singing songs and powerpoint slides were taking 10 seconds to change on an i7 with 2G
