Hello,
After years of love for Norton and toleration for this issue, I am now posting my first post!
After a couple days, the Commit Charge is up over 2000M, and the laptop runs really slow, which forces me to restart.
Rinse/Repeat every couple days!
I noticed that the Peak Mem Usage column seems more realistic than the Mem Usage column for representing the actual mem usage.
My issue is trying to find out WHY ccsvchst.exe is gobbling up all the memory and not releasing it!
The screen shot below is within one days time of running.
After my last restart, I left the laptop alone and would hear the hard drive crunching while nothing was being done with exception of a few apps starting in the background (System Config startup screenshot below). But once they are loaded, there should be no reason the system sounds like it is running a full system scan everytime. (is there?) Which is when I see the ccsvshst peak mem jump up everytime. Then levels off... but after time, it sneaks itself up!
(Browser related?)
I do visit FaceBook frequently. But that should not be an excuse for the high mem usage and no release. (right?)
Norton Internet Security version: 18.6.0.29
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model MP061
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8 GenuineIntel ~1729 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A08, 4/2/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name \
Time Zone Eastern Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 486.80 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 3.35 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Thanks in advance for any help!
~Christian