Tuesday, June 6, 2017

High CPU usage by the Sytem Process

Recently, we faced this situations where on Server2012 R2, the System process was causing high CPU. Around 40-60%.
Normally, it uses only 5%.

How do you troubleshoot?
Use Procmon.
Filter by Process Name like System. By default it is set to not include in the filter.

You will find that it is reading some files/folders in a loop. Delete those files.

Also, check you AV exclusions.