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    <title>topic Re: vmtoolsd.exe is using a lot of threads in Windows Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Windows-Discussions/vmtoolsd-exe-is-using-a-lot-of-threads/m-p/1306984#M199</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Wow, it looks like you're using the tools that came with ESXi 5.0 Update 3 from October 2013.&amp;nbsp; There have been several patches for ESXi 5.0 since Update 3.&amp;nbsp; The most recent patch for ESXi 5.0 has newer tools (8.6.15 build-2495133).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;See here: &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.0latest/index.html"&gt;http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.0latest/index.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:06:28 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Bleeder</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2015-04-02T18:06:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>vmtoolsd.exe is using a lot of threads</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Windows-Discussions/vmtoolsd-exe-is-using-a-lot-of-threads/m-p/1306983#M198</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi All,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We're using VMware tools a few years now on our Windows 2012R2 &lt;SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;environment&lt;/SPAN&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But the last months we get complains from some of our remote desktop users that our servers are slow, memory is full, and users can't sign out/in.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;After investigating this issue, we see that VMtoolsd.exe is using a lot of memory.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;And it takes a lot of time to kill the process.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We discovered in the Resource monitor that the process is using a lot of threads (sometimes 80.000). After killing the process the threads are slowly counting down to zero . After that the server is responding normal.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;On internet I can't find anyone who has this issue.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We have a lot of servers. This issue is only on a few of them.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We're using ESXi 5.0 and VMtools 8.6.11 build-1310128&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="resource manager.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/58228iA5FE5E0A37868445/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="resource manager.png" alt="resource manager.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Does anyone know what is going on?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:57:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Windows-Discussions/vmtoolsd-exe-is-using-a-lot-of-threads/m-p/1306983#M198</guid>
      <dc:creator>Twerf</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-03-12T09:57:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vmtoolsd.exe is using a lot of threads</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Windows-Discussions/vmtoolsd-exe-is-using-a-lot-of-threads/m-p/1306984#M199</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Wow, it looks like you're using the tools that came with ESXi 5.0 Update 3 from October 2013.&amp;nbsp; There have been several patches for ESXi 5.0 since Update 3.&amp;nbsp; The most recent patch for ESXi 5.0 has newer tools (8.6.15 build-2495133).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;See here: &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.0latest/index.html"&gt;http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.0latest/index.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:06:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Windows-Discussions/vmtoolsd-exe-is-using-a-lot-of-threads/m-p/1306984#M199</guid>
      <dc:creator>Bleeder</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-04-02T18:06:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vmtoolsd.exe is using a lot of threads</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Windows-Discussions/vmtoolsd-exe-is-using-a-lot-of-threads/m-p/1306985#M200</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;"&gt;Thanks for the answer.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In the next few days we will update our environment.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I let you know if the issues are gone.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:01:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Windows-Discussions/vmtoolsd-exe-is-using-a-lot-of-threads/m-p/1306985#M200</guid>
      <dc:creator>Twerf</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-04-14T07:01:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vmtoolsd.exe is using a lot of threads</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Windows-Discussions/vmtoolsd-exe-is-using-a-lot-of-threads/m-p/1306986#M201</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;We don't have the problem anymore.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Looks like the update was the solution.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I couldn't find anything about it in de changelogs of the vmtools.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2015 07:33:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Windows-Discussions/vmtoolsd-exe-is-using-a-lot-of-threads/m-p/1306986#M201</guid>
      <dc:creator>Twerf</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-05-07T07:33:57Z</dc:date>
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