I think it's very likely that you're running into the problem discussed here:
http://www.alphora.com/tiern.asp?ID=HDCHACK
even though the symptoms are not completely identical. I wish I had seen MS
acknowledge this issue somewhere, but I'm unaware that they have.
At 05:45 PM 7/27/2004, J Donni
We have a .NET 1.1 Winforms application that recently started to exhibit
some odd behavior. Specifically, after sitting idle for a while (> 30
minutes), the user's CPU starts getting hammered. Here's some background info:
First, it's a desktop app that connects to a SQL Server 2000 instance to
que