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The Munis Scheduler Monitor service is generating duplicate processes. This eventually leads to so many excessive processes, the CPU will spike to 99-100% on the Enterprise ERP Application server.

In Task Manager, you may see gdc.exe processes becoming Suspended

You will see the following error within Event Viewer:

Faulting application name: gdc.exe, version: 3.20.11.0, time stamp: 0x5e2ff834
Faulting module name: vm3dgl64.dll, version: 3.6.0.0, time stamp: 0x66a16726
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000e3696d
Faulting process id: 0x64e0
Faulting application start time: 0x01db23e0c0142215
Faulting application path: d:\munprod\gdc\bin\gdc.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\vm3dgl64.dll
Report Id: e9bda5fb-5d0b-4538-9aba-ec8a0aee6103
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

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  • Enterprise ERP
  • Performance
  • Munis Scheduler
  • SchedulerGDC
  • gdc.exe
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titleCause

This issue is caused by a corrupted VMWare DLL located at: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\vm3dgl64.dll following a VMWare Tools update to version 12.5.0 on the Enterprise ERP application server. A number of other software services (not Tyler related) were also impacted by the same issue.

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Workaround: stop the Munis Scheduler Monitor service Temporary workaround to reduce the impact on the CPU:

  1. On the Enterprise ERP Application server, open Services (services.msc)
  2. Locate Munis Scheduler Monitor [env], Port=xxxx
  3. Right click the service and click Stop 

Resolution:

Revert

 Revert any recent VMWare Tools updates on the Enterprise ERP application server 

  1. Uninstall VMWare Tools 12.5.Replace the corrupted DLL with a copy from another server or from a server snapshot if the revert does not fix the issue.0
  2. Install VMWare Tools 12.4.0
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