Re: High CPU Usage After KB958644
In article <0e3cd5ab-0a93-45e7-8a5b-37f04b1a1b80
@e38g2000prn.googlegroups.com>, jason.hill2@gmail.com says...
> Hi,
>
> We installed the critical update KB958644 on a Windows Server 2008
> machine 2 days ago and have experienced a massive increase in CPU
> utilisation, apparently for the System process. Our performance
> monitor reports typically showed the web server running in the 5-15%
> CPU utilisation range for the whole day even under fairly heavy load.
> For the last 2 days, the CPU graph now looks like an earthquake has
> hit and we have had to reboot the server both days to reset the CPU to
> normal.
>
> Today, the graph was showing 90%+ CPU utilisation and we were not able
> to RDP to the box and all web sites were non-responsive so had to get
> the ISP to do a hard reboot. The graph showed the server in this 90%+
> CPU usage state for several hours before we were made aware of the
> problem so it was not just a temporary problem.
>
> Has anyone else had problems with this security update? If we have
> this problem again tomorrow, then I think we will have to uninstall
> the update and ensure we are as secure as possible with the
> workarounds in the technet article.
Not seen on any of our servers, but you don't mention what you're
running for a server.
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