WMIprvse process leaks memory on 2008 server R2
- by Dani Fischer
I have a Windows 2008 R2 server running on a VM machine.
My .NET service is running on this server periodically querying WMI, for example:
SELECT ProcessId FROM Win32_Service WHERE ...
After a day or two WMIprvse takes up to 500M memory and WMI queries start getting out of memory exceptions.
This article seems to be talking about this issue:
"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958124"
I've seen other articles saying that Microsoft is aware of the problem and not going to issue a fix until the next major release.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/netfxbcl/thread/256eb40c-d050-4278-a3d8-863e30db02a0
I'd appreciate any suggestions and insights on this.