Re: [NTISP] what is dllhost.exe?

Josh Hillman ( (no email) )
Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:45:11 -0400

From: "Stephen Jeffries" <StephenJ@iol.com.au>
> dllhost is used on all versions of WIndows 2000. dllhost is the host
> process for all COM+ applications.
>
> IIS 5.0 uses COM+ for managing asp pages, and executing them, so when you
> call a asp page, dllhost will be used to execute the asp page.
>
> Just leave it there, it is very well behaved.

Thanks for the info about that; it's something I've been wondering about for
quite a while. I just have a hard time believing that for a 6k file, the 92
megs of RAM that it's using is normal. It seems to me like there's a nasty
memory leak somewhere.

Josh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Hillman [mailto:admin-maillist@talstar.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 28 September 2000 5:14 AM
> To: ntisp@iea-software.com
> Subject: [NTISP] what is dllhost.exe?
>
>
> What is dllhost.exe that runs on Windows 2000 (Advanced Server) SP1?
> It's using up 92 megs of RAM right now and that seems a bit excessive for
> something that's only 5904 bytes in the first place.
>
> dllhost.exe (made by Microsoft)
> 5904 bytes
> 12/7/99
> version 5.0.2181.1
> Description: COM Surrogate
>
> Josh
>
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