dbo.TempGetStateItemExclusive3 called repeatedly
I am investigating a problem with our website that uses SQL server to manage sessions. The website is asp.net webforms based around the sitecore CMS. We have the same code in various environments e.g. QA, staging, and production. In production, what we are seeing is, periodically, we get a rapidly rising CPU usage that does not correlate in any way to traffic to the server. Along with this cpu spike, we are seeing a corresponding spike in network I/O. Our monitoring software does not differentiate between traffic out to the internet and traffic to the DB server; however, what we are seeing on