ZWarrior:
Posting this so I remember it and others can learn from it.
I am having an issue where the process SVCHOST will eventually take up 100% of the CPU and grow in RAM use. Obviously a memory leak is present, but as I troubleshot this I also found out about a cmd-line tool that would tell me what processes it is supporting.
I found this page that told me somethings about it and also said to run "tasklist /SVC" to get a list of the processes being supported. **Note - It should also tell you to add the PID column to the Processes tab for Task Manager to see which svchost is the one in question.
I noticed that this starts eventually, as long as Outlook is loaded, but if I sync my cellphone I can get a svchost.exe to load and start leaking quicker.
The quick fix is to close that process, but that tends to de-stabilize the PC. Ultimately I have to just reboot the system to clear it out. I will post more as I start to isolate this.
In the meantime I thought you might like to hear about tasklist.exe.
ZWarrior:
Round two. I come home tonight and my CPU is at 100%. Let's see what the culprit's were...