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What exactly did his it department do using wmi to query this Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_ProcessAddressSpace_Costly? I can't find this in the article

• garaetjjte 8y ago
  > "By the way, the reason that the hangs kept happening at 10:30 am is just because that’s when our IT team ran their inventory scans. If you want to trigger a scan manually, you can go to Control Panel | Configuration Manager | Actions | Select ‘Hardware Inventory Cycle’ and then Run Now."
• brucedawson 8y ago
  The actual high-level query is in part one and in the first reply, but I think your real question is "why did they want to scan the address space of every process on the system?" I think that the answer is that they didn't. That was just one of the bazillion counters that came along for the ride. I believe that that counter has been removed in the latest OS, thus squishing this bug in another way. I don't understand WMI, but it sounds really weird. One peculiarity is that once some program asks for counters "WMI refreshes the list of counters every 2 minutes until the WMI helper process closes due to inactivity." So that's great. IT asks for some data, they get memory scans that they don't want, and those scans are repeated every two minutes for a while (ten minutes?) even though nobody is looking at the results.