XP, svchost, and helpsvc
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If I leave my XP (professional version) alone for a few hours, the HELPSVC and SVCHOST processes start up and start eating megabytes of RAM (500MB+). How do I stop this? What's going on in the background? It doesn't seem like XP is a very stable platform for long-term usage, like a server app. Should I be using W2000 server instead? Thanks, Marc
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If I leave my XP (professional version) alone for a few hours, the HELPSVC and SVCHOST processes start up and start eating megabytes of RAM (500MB+). How do I stop this? What's going on in the background? It doesn't seem like XP is a very stable platform for long-term usage, like a server app. Should I be using W2000 server instead? Thanks, Marc
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Have you reviewed your Event Viewer? Could be that some service is failing and svchost trying to start it up again over and over. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
Thank you for the suggestion. The problem appears to coincide with this message: "The COM+ Event System detected a corrupt IEventSubscription object. The COM+ Event System has removed object ID {71EDA56F-317A-11D2-98A9-00C04F8EE1C4}-{41E90F3E-56C1-4633-81C3-6E8BAC8BDD70}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}. The subscriber will no longer be notified when the event occurs." Any ideas? I'll have to root around now that you've given me a clue. Thanks again, Marc