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Re: NT4 bug? Or bug in my hardware?


From: pokee () maxwell ee washington edu (Aaron Spangler)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:57:14 PST


It seems to make the 'RPCSS' (Remote Procedure Call Server Service) eat
99% of cpu time.  You can prevent rebooting by killing and restarting
RPCSS.  (I was not able to stop the process on my NT4.0 WKS SP2 box except
by attaching a debugger to the process, and then stopping the debugger.
Then to restart, do 'net start rpcss' from a CMD.EXE window.
Hmm...

 - Aaron

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-----Original Message-----
From:   Jason T. Luttgens [SMTP:luttgenj () kic or jp]
Sent:   21 January 1997 11:26
To:     Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ
Subject:        NT4 bug? Or bug in my hardware?

Can anyone confirm this? On an NT4 server (maybe workstation too, I
don't have it to try),
if you telnet to port 135, type a bunch of junk (say 10-20
characters), hit enter and disconnect,
the server's processor utilization will go up to 100%!!! The only fix
I found was to reboot.
I tried with and without SP2.....same result. The installation is 'out
of the box' with standard
default install options, of course including TCP/IP. I have no other
NT4 servers to try this on
and was wondering if I could get someone to try and confirm this
.....

Luck




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