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Finally a processor which can run svchost.exe.
How is the performance ?
Finally a processor which can run svchost.exe.
How is the performance ?
I really don’t get why the industry is still on Windows for the most part. I wish my company would just standardize on some supported variant of a Linux Desktop and be done with Windows once and for all.
You should look at which thing it's actually running to see what's using all your CPU.
Some articles detailing what it does and how it works: [1] https://nasbench.medium.com/demystifying-the-svchost-exe-pro... [2] https://pusha.be/index.php/2020/05/07/exploration-of-svchost... [3] https://blog.didierstevens.com/2019/10/29/quickpost-running-...
These articles were great by the way! I’ve never gotten significantly down and dirty in svchost, so these were a treat to read. I much appreciate the effort in your response. Have a pleasant day!
Maybe you're self-employed and unsuccessful in troubleshooting this yourself, but that sounds like a five-minutes-with-a-first-line-support-technician problem.
If you don't have a tech support department to turn to (or if they are incompetent), investigate the process with ProcessExplorer from Sysinternals to find out what that service host process is running and go from there.
The industry is still on Windows because it's easier to manage in a corporate setting. And usually better for software compatibility.
I had a near equivalent problem where my Windows desktop was brought to its knees by an instance of Glassfish running on it by some sort of policy. We did embedded development, low level stuff like data plane processing via FPGA. Internal IT spent 1/2 an hour trying to convince me that Glassfish was an essential part of my development stack.
I never bothered to convince them to solve the morning 9 AM virus scan of every file on disk. I just hung out in the break room for the 45 minutes it took while the UI was almost totally useless
Speak to the manager of your manager, and if that doesn’t work, to the manager of the manager of the manager. If that does not work, write a handwritten letter to the CEO and deliver it. If the CRO knew about this, they would definitely fix it! Don’t forget a a wax seal, they love those!
Actually that reminds me, I right-clicked the svchost instance using the most memory and noticed the restart option, I was in an “f it” mood, so I clicked restart to see what would explode. Didn’t seem to have any negative effect that I could notice at the time. Memory usage instantly dropped by 6GB.
It was a nice and quick buy me some time trick.
I mean, it doesn't sound like your current windows desktop is particularly supported.
With Linux these gremlins tend to be a bit less of a problem in my, gosh 20 years of IT experience. 20 years, wow! Am I really that old? Dear god. Where does the time go?
Even then unless it was a trivial issue, it was often a simpler fix to just re-image (or swap out hardware if we happened to have new ones available) - because most people had zero custom software installed (except for the 8 different IE toolbars they had somehow installed but swear appeared automatically) and after all, its windows: restoring from a clean image meant the machine would suddenly have that new car smell again and it'd likely last longer until the next issue would pop up.
For people with custom software there was usually more leeway to troubleshoot problems - particularly if it was stuff that needed one-off configuration.
I do feel your pain but having been on the other side of that fence I also feel their pain.
People really want to get away from windows. But they really really don't want to deal with an OS that feels like it's 1990.
I'd rather a 1990 feel than the current feel where everything is flat and it's not obvious what's interactable and my 27" 4K monitor is 90% whitespace.
Though it is possible to use Linux and never need the terminal, especially if you're not an engineer.
Or as the kids say “uWubuntu”
Haha. Wait, what’s wrong with 90’s style? Check out how fast the 90’s style Serenity OS project is. It’s really something special they’re building.
Find the PID of the svchost.exe process that's eating CPU in Task Manager. Then go to the Service tab of Task Manager and find the service with that PID. You'll have your actual culprit of what's eating CPU. It COULD be a Windows service that's acting up, but it's just as likely some 3rd party service.
Nobody uses DCOM, not even back then.
It is likely that the cores of Sierra Forest have a microarchitecture very similar to the small cores of Meteor Lake (the big cores of Meteor Lake are almost identical to the big cores of Raptor Lake/Alder Lake, but its small cores are improved).
Compared to the small cores of Meteor Lake, the cores of Sierra Forest will support some additional instructions. Most of them are some instructions previously available only in the server CPUs that support AVX-512, but in Sierra Forest (and also in the next desktop/laptop CPUs, i.e. Arrow Lake/Lunar Lake) they are re-encoded in the AVX instruction format (i.e. using a VEX prefix).