Dear ,
On a server with Windows KM , patrol agent is running below processes and consuming 5GB memory
Any one noticed this and has any information regarding the same , Please suggest
Currently I killed these process but need to understand why it came
Regards
Abhay
I have similar case where patrol agent is opening up Powershell instances and consuming 95% of memory. Have you had any luck diagnosing?
Unfortunately no , Customer disabled the agent on the server and did not gave the opportunity to troubleshoot further .
Dear Abhay,
We had faced similar type of issue in our environment on a Windows server. We troubleshooted a lot but it didn't work. Below is the workaround to resolve this issue:
Hope it helps..
Thanks,
Suman
It is the NT_EVENTLOG km. It creates the PowerShells to handle Windows Logs, but for some reason they keep growing in memory use and won't release it.
We also noticed other similar powershells that had been left orphaned, i.e., Windows resource monitors shows their parent process cannot be found.
The powershells look like this:
powershell.exe -NonInteractive -NoProfile invoke-command -scriptblock "{$SleepSeconds=60;$startTime = '2018-03-22T13:26:08Z';$Host.UI.RawUI.BufferSize = New-Object Management.Automation.Host.Size(5000, 2500); $counter=1;$query = '<QueryList><Query Id=\"0\" > <Select Path=\"Application\">*</Select> <Select Path=\"Microsoft-IIS-Logging/Logs\">*</Select> <Select Path=\"Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational\">*</Select> <Select Path=\"Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Maintenance\">*</Select></Query></QueryList>';$bckqry=$query;while(1 -eq 1) { Try {$doc=[xml]$query;$endTime = ((get- ...
There is a BMC article 000094691, which may apply.
Regards,
RB