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    • OSMH: High CPU usage for Windows osmh Process

    edited Feb 25, 2025 8:01AM in Linux

    Applies to:

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
    Windows 2016 and Above

    Symptoms
    There is a high CPU load on the OSMH managed instance.

    • The top 10 CPU hogs:

      PS C:\ > Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.name -ne 'svchost'} | Sort-Object CPU -desc | Select-Object -first 10 | Format-Table CPU,ProcessName,Id
      CPU ProcessName Id

    --- ----------- --

    746.515625 MsMpEng 2876
    246.46875 QualysAgent 5320
    168 MsSense 2868
    99.875 gomon 4920
    93.640625 runcommand 5180
    45.1875 System 4
    42.984375 Procmon64 1856
    37.5625 osmh 5232
    7.734375 NisSrv 4852
    16.578125 unifiedmonitoring 5820

    • The command output shows that the "osmh" process is showing up in the top 10 highest for CPU usage.
    • The logs show that the check interval is running every 5 mins:

    osmh-agent.log:2025/01/20 14:38:26.071143 win_updates_windows.go:83: [DEBUG] GetWindowsUpdateList:
    osmh-agent.log:2025/01/20 14:43:35.506091 win_updates_windows.go:83: [DEBUG] GetWindowsUpdateList:

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