inetinfo.exe problem

[jfgonzalez]

Hi,

Okay, don't laugh. Here at my day job, our combination file/printer server also acts as our Intranet server and it's running Windows NT, Service Pack 4.0 with IIS 4.0. I know, it's ancient, and we want to replace/upgrade it, but that isn't possible right now.

The server itself has acted fine...until today when we had users calling to complain that the company intranet page was down. A restart of IIS didn't solve the problem. That's when I discovered the CPU process was flunctuating between 91-100% and the culprit was inetinfo.exe.

We've tried everything to correct this problem, to no avail: Windows patches, spyware and anti-virus scans, all to no avail. Rebooting the server provides temporary relief until the process explodes through the stratosphere again. On this last reboot, I completely stopped IIS and SMTP Services and so far so good -- CPU is running fine now.

The question is, why would this process start behaving this way so suddenly and how can I correct it? As of now, a OS upgrade is not possible.

Thanks
J

 

[grtammi]

Got a run away background script running somewhere maybe?

Greg

"for me, the action is the juice.

 

[jfgonzalez]

Nope, no scripts running at all. I've got IIS turned off now, so our Intranet site is temporarily down. CPU is running fine. We're in the process of setting up a second intranet server with IIS 5 to take over, but it would be nice to determine what's causing inetinfo.exe to behave in this fashion.

Thanks,
JFG