lsass,exe leaking resources (handles)

[chrysalis]

I noticed yesterday extreme handle usage on my system, over 120k handles, of which 80k were due to lsass.exe which is a unkillable process. The security accounts manager service is not stoppable also which uses lsass.exe.

Today after I rebooted I see its not a one off problem and its leaking handles again. Seems about 1k handles per hour.

I dont fancy rebooting every few days (previously I rebooted once a month for updates).

any idea how to solve this without reinstallng the OS.

right now it seems the most likely cause is a recent windows update I installed.

 

[MilesAhead]

right now it seems the most likely cause is a recent windows update I installed.

Seems like you answered your own question.

If you have the means, I'd make an image backup of the current state of the machine, then roll back the update if possible.