Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Services.exe using large amount of memory

I noticed several of our Windows 2003 servers were performing poorly and found that the process "services.exe" was using between 200 and 400 MB of memory, compared to 6 to 10 MB on servers that were performing normally.

I fixed the problem by simply clearing all event logs. I have no idea why this worked, but it did and almost instantly brought memory usage back down to around 6 MB.

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