RE: [NTISP] what is dllhost.exe?

Stephen Jeffries ( StephenJ@iol.com.au )
Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:17:10 +1100

No, it is hosting a number of DLL's. So the total number that you are
seeing is actually multiple instances of COM objects, that are hosted in the
file.

Look at IE, the exe is about 80KB, but all of the components - the render,
navigation, menus, etc, are what move the exe up to about 2MB at run time.

Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Hillman [mailto:admin-maillist@talstar.com]
Sent: Thursday, 28 September 2000 1:45 PM
To: ntisp@iea-software.com
Subject: Re: [NTISP] what is dllhost.exe?

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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