Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) service is taking more memory on windows 2012 R2 server

Question

The Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) service, running under svchost, is consuming excessive memory on a Windows 2012 server, causing the server to become unresponsive. Could you please advise why the WinRM service is consuming more memory?

Answer 1

Hello

1. Isolate the svchost to its own svchost.

Sc config winrm start= disabled

Net stop winrm

Sc config winrm type= own

Sc config winrm start= auto

Net start winrm

2. Use the vmmap to check the memory usage.

VMMap - Sysinternals | Microsoft Learn

3. Based on the memory usage then collect the log.

The following link may be useful.

WMI: High Memory Usage by WMI Service or Wmiprvse.exe - Microsoft Community Hub