Does License Validation Service use Windows Management Instrumentation?

Hi all,

Since we have started the License Validation Service a few days ago on our SQL server the system database msdb grows about 3.2 GB. We have seen that since the service has started the service SQL/Notifications/ProcessWMIEventProviderNotification/v1.0 puts events in a special queue named WMIEventProviderNotificationQueue in database msdb. In the meantime we have over 800.000 events there.

Here it is explained how it works:

Understanding the WMI Provider for Server Events

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181893.aspx

We found our problem described here (in german language)

Unexpected massive growing of mdsb

http://blog.trivadis.com/blogs/imsms/archive/2008/05/19/unerwartetes-massives-wachstum-von-msdb-oder-der-primary-filegroup-einer-sql-server-2005-db.aspx

Our productive system is on a vitual machine with 2 drives. Because of this problem on the system drive c is no space available.

Did someone else have seen this problem?

Kind regards

Bernhard Stuebner