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ArcticMyst
Jan 27, 2023Copper Contributor
RunTimeBroker.exe crashing - many machines impacted and crashing taking gigs of space
We are seeing Runtimebroker.exe crashing on 20-30+ machines per day and the crashes are taking up gigs of disk space. Is anyone at Microsoft aware of a fix for this? We opened a support ticket and ...
vadym219
Jan 30, 2023Copper Contributor
Hi ArcticMyst,
What exactly takes a lot of space ?
What exactly takes a lot of space ?
- ArcticMystJan 30, 2023Copper ContributorThe dump files of the crashing processes.... when processes crash they make .DMP files via werfault.exe which take up space and these can take gigs of space... we have the logs of it happening because run queries for this in Defender/Sentinel.. there should be Zero Crashing especially from Microsoft processes. Why doesn't Microsoft automatically collect diagnostics for stuff like this and proactively fix the code? If you take a dump, clean it up... not our mess to be figuring out the problem with the crashing code.