Is this normal??

[TechHead87]

I checked my running processes under the ctr/alt/del menu....I've got 4 svchost files running at once. Two, under SYSTEM...one has about 24,676KB of Mem Usage, and the other about 4,824KB...Two others under NETWORK SERVICE....4,072KB of mem usage, and the other at 3,228KB of mem usage. Is this normal? If so, please explain the concept to me.

 

[Leros]

That seems to be the norm. However, I dont get the concept either.

 

[Continuity28]

I don't understand the underlying workings of Windows XP either, or svchost, but it's defiantely normal.

Right now I have 5 going, 2 on SYSTEM, 2 on NETWORK SERVICE, and one on LOCAL SERVICE. One of the system ones is using 12,924K of memory, and the others less than 1,500K each.

 

[stash]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314056

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: JToxic
That seems to be the norm. However, I dont get the concept either.

Completely normal. Svchost is a housing which a number of services run under. It's more resource effective than having seperate processes for each.

Bill

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: JToxic
That seems to be the norm. However, I dont get the concept either.

Completely normal. Svchost is a housing which a number of services run under. It's more resource effective than having seperate processes for each.

Bill

Thank you

 

[vapore0n]

there is a trojan with a very similar name
svchost - original
scvhost - trojan

other than that, its as common as multiple rundlls running