>The performance monitor on our Win 2003 server often shows CPU at 25%, due
>entirely to Sql Server Agent at a time when the agent shows no jobs running.
>We stop and restart the agent, and CPU consumption drops to zero. A day or
>two later and we're back to 25% again because of the agent. We're running
>Sql Server 2000.
>
>What is the problem?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Randy Neall
>
>

"Sue Hoegemeier" <Sue_H@nomail.please> wrote in message
news:8f9f12dc24sqedodsd954e24flcs22tfat@4ax.com...
> Did you also watch with Profiler to see what's going on?
> If you aren't using alerts, you could try deleting the demo
> alerts that are installed by default. You can script out the
> alerts first and then drop them.
>
> -Sue
>
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:33:25 -0500, "Randolph Neall"
> <randolphne***@veracitycomputing.com> wrote:
>
> >The performance monitor on our Win 2003 server often shows CPU at 25%,
due
> >entirely to Sql Server Agent at a time when the agent shows no jobs
running.
> >We stop and restart the agent, and CPU consumption drops to zero. A day
or
> >two later and we're back to 25% again because of the agent. We're running
> >Sql Server 2000.
> >
> >What is the problem?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Randy Neall
> >
> >
>