I got the useal phone call today from a customer “I tried to change the user details but something went wrong and now i can’t change his details”. I checked the profile import and realized it had been running for 18 days. same thing with search… did the useal google search, and only thing i could find where problems with sql server and not having sp2. It was not the case on this server everything where updated with latest. Another one suggested maintenance plan on the search db could cause some hick ups but no maintenance plan on the db where exsisting. so i tried to stop the profile import.. nothing happened, then i tried to stop the search crawl, nothing.
then the next step where to kill the service, I realized two services where present, one for WSS(Windows Sharepoint Services Search) and one for MOSS(Office Sharepoint Server Search) both where running. i killed the wss service first no problem with that one. then tried the same thing with the MOSS one and it couldn’t stop! ofcourse it couldnt be started either…
in a bit of a deadlock both me and the server i had to go into the taskmanager and kill all the processes related to Office Sharepoint Server Search, then the cpu hit the roof and all memory where swallowed for 5 minutes and suddenly everything where calm. went into the shared services administration thing and re ran the profile import and everything where fine. I am going to watch this server carefully the following days but what could have caused this I have no clue, anyone got answer?
