Anyone know whats causing this?

[GwynDavies]

First time tech post! Hi all

 

Causes the machine to grind to a halt for about 10 mins before it sorts itself out, not sure what causing it have any of you seen it before? Its on a few W10 Machines (64bit Enterprise LTSB). All current updates are installed.

 

Thanks in advance!

[mrwoberts]

I see the diagnostic service in the list of possible offenders, is it worth checking if an app silently crashed in the background windows is creating an error report/dump - look at 'Problem reports'

[GwynDavies]

​Problem reports are clear

[witch]

svchost viewer - Home might help narrow it down a bit

[GwynDavies]

It didn't really give me much of an indication, has anyone seen this happen before?

[witch]

Can anyone help?

[Jac1912]

I had the issue of my CPU running constantly at 100% after the install of windows 10, In the end it was a bios update that fixed the issue.

[PeterH]

You can split each service to run in its own service host, then it should be listed individually in Task Manager and you should be able to identify which one is causing the problem.

 

sc config servicename type=own

 

The problem is you will need to do it for each service on the machine and there will be lots of them. But if you look here How to find memory usage of individual Windows services? - Server Fault there is a powershell script that can do it for you.

 

We had a very similar problem a year or so ago and turned out to be windows update consuming huge amounts of memory shortly after the computers were started up. Try disabling the Windows Update service and see if that makes any difference. That was on Win 7 however.

[GwynDavies]

Thanks everyone, it looks like its down to a bad GPO. Turned a few off and it hasn't happened since. When I narrow it down I'll put the result up here.