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High CPU usage in wmiprvse.exe when you have SAP installed

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Symptoms

With SAP NetWeaver installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 you may experience high CPU usage in wmiprvse.exe. This CPU usage increases with the number of SAP worker processes.

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Cause

The high CPU usage is caused by an efficiency issue in the way WMI collects the performance counters. 

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Resolution

Please contact SAP for more information and reference SAP note 1919492 - "100% CPU consumption of WmiPrvSE.exe process".

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More Information

The callstack of the affected thread will end in perfproc!GetProcessVaData and that is where the high CPU will accumulate. This can be collected and viewed by using WPRUI and WPA. These are part of the Windows Performance Toolkit.

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Article Info
Article ID : 2996013
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 10/27/2014
Exists online : False
Views : 224