problem with growing svchost (not the usual one)

[cathor]

hi!
one of my svchost instances just keeps on growing and growing. after 2 days of uptime it is about 70mb. i have used process explorer to determine that it is the RPC service that has started the instance of svchost from the Network service account. is it normal that this process keeps growing like this?
usually when people have a problem with svchost it is because i hogs the cpu but in my case it is hogging the pagefile. i dont experience any XP slowdowns so i dont know if this actually is a problem. but i want to solve this before it becomes a problem. one time the svchost process was 100mb and kept growing...

what could be the cause of this?
TIA

[EzyStvy]

Sounds normal to me...Could reboot and make it shrink

[cathor]

yes, that is an option. but my other computer with much lower specs can be on for a month and the pagefile would have grown about 5mb. just bought this new computer and the pagefile grows like 50mb a day.
i have checked for spyware(spybot sd), virus(nod32), the registry is clean and the two computers are running the same OS. just cant figure out what is causing this...

[TwoRails]

ops... mis-read

[liambl]

In my experience, "the more RAM you have the more RAM stuff uses". So if this new pc has more RAM, processes are going to use more of it to increase performance.

[cathor]

Originally Posted by liambl In my experience, "the more RAM you have the more RAM stuff uses". So if this new pc has more RAM, processes are going to use more of it to increase performance.

yes i have considered that explanation aswell. I would have settled for that if the process had beeen fairly static in its memoryusage. but now it is growing out of control, who knows when its gonna stop.

here is a link to a screenshot with some info
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/8411/memusagesu6.jpg