Winmgmt causing 100 per cent CPU cycles

I have an SBS2000 server which is showing high CPU usage. This is being
caused by winmgmt.exe cycling the CPU from the normal to 100 per cent. This
is not a quick spike but more of a build-up over a few minutes, peaking at
100 per cent and then falling off again. The cycle happens every 30 minutes.

I have checked the properties of WMI and ensured that logging is set to
errors only, and I have tried disabling logging.

The server is up to date with all patches through Windows Update although
Windows Update stopped working at the same time that this error started.
Windows Update now just gives error 80072ee2, ie can't get a response. Maybe
that's a coincidence, maybe it's not.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Kevin
Mon Oct 01 19:11:50 PDT 2007

for your windows update problem, check out:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate&tid=58ce6f0e-5727-4d45-9da1-3ebd23fce053&m=1&p=1

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Kevin Weilbacher [SBS MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
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"Nigel Dimmick" <NigelDimmick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have an SBS2000 server which is showing high CPU usage. This is being
> caused by winmgmt.exe cycling the CPU from the normal to 100 per cent.
> This
> is not a quick spike but more of a build-up over a few minutes, peaking at
> 100 per cent and then falling off again. The cycle happens every 30
> minutes.
>
> I have checked the properties of WMI and ensured that logging is set to
> errors only, and I have tried disabling logging.
>
> The server is up to date with all patches through Windows Update although
> Windows Update stopped working at the same time that this error started.
> Windows Update now just gives error 80072ee2, ie can't get a response.
> Maybe
> that's a coincidence, maybe it's not.
>
> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Many thanks