Kevin holman noticed that WMI on some of their Server 2008R2 monitored agents was consuming a large amount of memory – and continually increasing.

It turns out there is a hotfix for Windows 2008 R2 – which addresses a possible leak when an application queries the Win32_Service class frequently. A monitoring tool would do this – and therefore SCOM can accelerate this leak.

This hotfix addresses this issue :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981314

For more information : http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2010/06/09/wmi-leaks-memory-on-server-2008-r2-monitored-agents.aspx

2008 · agent · hotfix · memory leak · Scom · sever · windows