B
B.Hively
After applying the April 2018 cumulative update (also confirmed this still exists in the May 2018 cumulative update as well) ALL of our Windows Server 2012 (NOT R2) systems have the svchost.exe process consuming 100% of 1 CPU core. If the Windows Update service is stopped, CPU usage drops back down to normal range. I have run through a lot of the older suggestions, validating the WMI repository, clearing out Downloads and DataStore in SoftwareDistribution, etc. without any change in behavior.
Is there anyone else seeing this behavior?
One thing to note - it wasn't noticeable at first, in fact it didn't seem to start right after installation of the updates, it started over this past weekend (May 12/13, 2018). Perhaps this isn't so much an issue with the patches as it is some change made to Windows Update back end systems over the weekend...? I have no clue but it is very annoying.
Continue reading...
Is there anyone else seeing this behavior?
One thing to note - it wasn't noticeable at first, in fact it didn't seem to start right after installation of the updates, it started over this past weekend (May 12/13, 2018). Perhaps this isn't so much an issue with the patches as it is some change made to Windows Update back end systems over the weekend...? I have no clue but it is very annoying.
Continue reading...