smsexec.exe memory hog

[StarzEG]

I have a server (dual processor/512mb ram) running SMS and SQL 7.0. Every now and then, smsexec.exe seems to eat up all the memory. It starts using >450 mb of the RAM and slows down everything on the server. I am running SMS 2.0 SP5. Sometimes it runs without any problems. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Tim

 

[StarzEG]

After researching the problem, it was determined that this issue was caused by Duplicate GUIDs. After creating the necessary queries and collections for duplicates, I was able to run a SMS package to remove the GUIDs on duplicates and then recreate a new GUID. There were also a few that had to be manually updated. Although this did take several days to remove the duplicates, SMS now runs without any problems. The Microsoft technical paper that was used to resolve the issue is located at

http://www.microsoft.com/smsmgmt/techdetails/newuid.asp

. There is an updated newuid.exe on myitforum.com. Hope this helps anyone else who is having similar problems.

-tim