TSM Server Handles Too High!

[CharlesTSM]

Morning,

We have TSM Server running a quite hefty Server (Windows 2008 R2)...

We have an issue with the number of handles on the box... I've narrowed this down to SVCHOST.EXE and if I breakdown the Handles I can see the following:

Handle type summary:
ALPC Port : 102279
Desktop : 1
Directory : 2
EtwRegistration : 48
Event : 948
File : 18
IoCompletion : 2
Key : 10
KeyedEvent : 2
Mutant : 26
Section : 207
Semaphore : 26
Thread : 36
Timer : 4
Token : 25
TpWorkerFactory : 48
WindowStation : 2
Total handles: 103684

If I look even deeper I can see lots and lots of these:

631B8: Section \RPC Control\DSEC3d4a6ec460498e25727
639D4: Section \RPC Control\DSEC3d4ed1c299f72e5592
639D8: Section \RPC Control\DSEC3d447c599a6a8bb0af5
649F8: Section \RPC Control\DSEC3d4c5825381830e8ac2
651F8: Section \RPC Control\DSEC3d454038002c0be29dc

Now I know we can solve this with a reboot but it is a bit of a nightmare as the Server is in use alot...

Any ideas would really help.

Thanks,

Charles

 

[LED888]

Not sure if you already found the following techdoc
Use of Windows Handles by the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (ITSM) Server

Good Luck,
Sias

 

[CharlesTSM]

Hey Sias, Thanks for coming back to me...

Interestingly enough that reference actually explains to me why we have the problem on other servers (clients) but not actually on the Server itself.

This points to the dsmsvc.exe itself whereas the exe on the Server I'm having problems is svchost.exe however it is full up with these ALPC Port : 102279 handles that TSM must be creating because it is the only thing running on this Server

Thanks,

Charles