100% CPU usage in BizTalk development environment

Thursday 16 April, 2009 (BizTalk | Fixes)

These last few days I have been having enormous problems with my BizTalk development environment running in a windows Server 2003 Virtual PC environment. Whenever the BizTalkServerApplication host was started CPU usage would stay at 100% consistently. Stopping all my applications and even deleting them changed nothing. No running or suspended instances were visible. For some reason the sqlservr.exe process was consuming all available CPU resources. I found a couple of links that helped me solve the problem:

http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/BizTalk/microsoft.public.biztalk.general/2006-11/msg00243.html
http://www.digitaldeposit.net/saravana/post/2008/06/04/Read-this-before-using-bts_CleanupMsgBox-stored-procedure.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727781.aspx

Basically running the following SQL:

exec bts_CleanupMsgbox

After installing the script according to the instructions provided by Microsoft solved my issues! I suspect that this could have to do with a problem with zombie messages that I have had.

There is also a hotfix available in case you have the wrong version installed. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924715

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