Symptoms
You may experience slow performance during regular workload when you have a transactional replication publisher set up in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014 and procedures are being replicated. You may also notice that an error message that resembles the following is logged repeatedly in the SQL Server error log when you run maintenance jobs on the server:
Note
date time Server * BEGIN STACK DUMP:
datetime Server * datetime spid #
datetime Server *
datetime Server * Non-yielding Scheduler
Additionally, a mini dump file is created.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.
Cumulative Update 1 for SQL Server 2014 /en-us/help/2931693
Cumulative Update 7 for SQL Server 2012 SP1 /en-us/help/2894115
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Workaround
To work around this problem, stop the transactional replication log reader agent before you run the maintenance jobs.
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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