G'day, A friend of mine (seriously!) is having problems with their virtual memory. They get errors stating they their virtual memory is too low. Then applications refuse to respond etc etc. First I just instructed them to increase their page file size (it was already had a 1.5 gig or so limit). Further investigation revealed they were indeed using huge amounts of virtual memory. Commit charge: 2041/2517 (MB). We then discovered it was svchost.exe (well, one of the instances of svchost.exe, one labelled as "SYSTEM" in the "User Name" column of "processes" in task manager) which was hogging the virtual memory. It was using 1.7 gigs of virtual memory at that time. On my PC the most that any of the svchost.exe processes are using is about 17 megs... I’ve no idea what might be causing svchost.exe to use this massive amount of virtual memory? We've scanned svchost.exe (c:/windows/system32) for viruses and it came up clean with virus definitions updated yesterday. Background Information: Windows XP Professional SP2 Physical Memory: 512 megs (of which only 200 megs were being used when I asked) Cheers, Joseph
