Re: Microsoft SMS 100% Processor utilization

[Ian Kayne <Ian.Kayne () SOFTLAB CO UK>]

Quick update, the technet article says this behaviour times out after 1
hour. I wish. It's now near enough 2hrs, and we're still at 100%
utilization.

Ian Kayne
Technical Specialist - IT Solutions
Softlab Ltd - A BMW Company

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Kayne Ian (Softlab)
> Sent: 27 February 2001 14:37
> To:   'Vuln-Dev'
> Subject:      Microsoft SMS 100% Processor utilization
>
> Hey all,
>       Preliminary post, I'm just about to do more
> investigation into this (I also have the added incentive that
> MS refuse to help me :).
>
>       Refer to TechNet Q225507. According to this article,
> the 100% processor utilization is exhibited by SMS 2.0 and
> fixed in SP1, the fix is to upgrade to SP2. We already have
> SP2 installed, and have just experienced this behaviour on
> the master server, which has become near enough unusable.
>
>       All the relevant details are in the above Q article.
> What makes this strange is it apparently happened "of it's
> own accord" - SMS has been running here for a year & more
> with no problem. I'll see if I can re-create it, and turn it
> into a DoS.
>
>       If anyone else has experienced this, plz mail me, as I
> also kinda need the server working again ;)
>
> Tnx!
>
> Ian Kayne
> Technical Specialist - IT Solutions
> Softlab Ltd - A BMW Company


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