AmesMUG: Parallels going bezerk since 3188

[John Rearick]

Yeah, I have experienced this before as well.  I don't know why it  
happened, but it has only done it to me a couple of times, usually  
not long after booting up.  I found the same stuff about svchost.exe,  
so I just let it run.  After a couple of days, it seems to have  
disappeared.  I run Windows every day, all day because I use it for  
mail at work (Outlook > Entourage).  It did it on my iMac at work on  
two different Windows installations and at least once on my MBP.  Are  
there any more Windows updates available within the past week or two?

John

On Apr 30, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Colin Wheeler wrote:

> Hey everybody
>
> I just want to know if anybody else is experiencing this. I can't  
> be sure but I believe before the 3188 update windows xp pro running  
> under parallels ran just fine. I could start it up and right away  
> dig into my homework. But sometime ago whenever I started XP pro up  
> my CPU's went bezerk. Since Parallels only knows about 1 core in my  
> 2.33 Ghz Core 2 Duo it had 1 process called svchost.exe that was  
> taking up 97-98% cpu usage, combined with the apps im running on OS  
> X it could take 40-70% on each cpu core.
>
> I looked it up and found http://www.liutilities.com/products/ 
> wintaskspro/processlibrary/svchost/ which says it's some process  
> that helps with executing commands from dll's and shouldn't be  
> killed. Even on a top of the line Core 2 Duo it feels like it takes  
> a minute or two for this process hogging to get done so I can  
> resume using XP without the applications responding slowly.
>
> I didn't install anything new on windows and generally only go to  
> DMACC's online page for homework, certainly nothing that should hog  
> up this much cpu time. I have ClamWin installed and will probably  
> scan my hole system, but is anybody else experiencing anything like  
> this?
>
> From Colin
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