WMIprvse process leaks memory on 2008 server R2

Question

I have a Windows 2008 R2 server running on a VM machine. My .NET service is running on this server periodically querying WMI, for example:

SELECT ProcessId FROM Win32_Service WHERE ...

After a day or two WMIprvse takes up to 500M memory and WMI queries start getting out of memory exceptions.

This article seems to be talking about this issue: "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958124"

I've seen other articles saying that Microsoft is aware of the problem and not going to issue a fix until the next major release. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/netfxbcl/thread/256eb40c-d050-4278-a3d8-863e30db02a0

I'd appreciate any suggestions and insights on this.

Answer 1

There is a hotfix available, but you have to request it by clicking on the link to request the hotfix at the top of the page.

Hotfix