xperf WinDBG C# .NET 4.5.2 Application - Understanding process dump

Question

Under a heavy load, our application is making a beefy server go to 100% CPU usage. Reading the process dump, looking at the threads, some of them are 10 minutes up. None of them give me any insight when using !CLRStack.

The !runaway is giving me:

0:030> !runaway
 User Mode Time
  Thread       Time
  53:2e804      0 days 0:10:04.703
  30:31894      0 days 0:07:51.593
  33:47100      0 days 0:07:24.890
  42:11e54      0 days 0:06:45.875
  35:35e18      0 days 0:06:07.578
  41:54464      0 days 0:05:49.796
  47:57700      0 days 0:05:45.000
  44:3c2d4      0 days 0:05:44.265
  32:3898c      0 days 0:05:43.593
  50:54894      0 days 0:05:41.968
  51:5bc58      0 days 0:05:40.921
  43:14af4      0 days 0:05:40.734
  48:35074      0 days 0:05:40.406
  ...

Calling !DumpStack on one of those threads, I am getting:

0000001ab442f900 00007ff9ef4c1148 KERNELBASE!WaitForSingleObjectEx+0x94, calling ntdll!NtWaitForSingleObject
0000001ab442f980 00007ff9e920beb2 clr!SVR::gc_heap::compute_new_dynamic_data+0x17b, calling clr!SVR::gc_heap::desired_new_allocation
0000001ab442f9a0 00007ff9e90591eb clr!CLREventWaitHelper2+0x38, calling kernel32!WaitForSingleObjectEx
0000001ab442f9b0 00007ff9e90e0d2c clr!WriteBarrierManager::UpdateEphemeralBounds+0x1c, calling clr!WriteBarrierManager::NeedDifferentWriteBarrier
0000001ab442f9e0 00007ff9e9059197 clr!CLREventWaitHelper+0x1f, calling clr!CLREventWaitHelper2
0000001ab442fa40 00007ff9e9059120 clr!CLREventBase::WaitEx+0x70, calling clr!CLREventWaitHelper
0000001ab442fa70 00007ff9ef4c149c KERNELBASE!SetEvent+0xc, calling ntdll!NtSetEvent
0000001ab442faa0 00007ff9e90ef1e1 clr!SVR::gc_heap::set_gc_done+0x22, calling clr!CLREventBase::Set
0000001ab442fad0 00007ff9e90e9331 clr!SVR::gc_heap::gc_thread_function+0x8a, calling clr!CLREventBase::WaitEx
0000001ab442fb00 00007ff9e92048e7 clr!SVR::gc_heap::gc_thread_stub+0x7a, calling clr!SVR::gc_heap::gc_thread_function
0000001ab442fb60 00007ff9e91a0318 clr!Thread::CLRSetThreadStackGuarantee+0x48, calling kernel32!SetThreadStackGuaranteeStub
0000001ab442fb90 00007ff9e91a01ef clr!Thread::CommitThreadStack+0x10, calling clr!Thread::CLRSetThreadStackGuarantee
0000001ab442fbd0 00007ff9e910df0b clr!ClrFlsSetValue+0x57, calling kernel32!SetLastErrorStub
0000001ab442fc00 00007ff9e92048dc clr!SVR::gc_heap::gc_thread_stub+0x6f, calling clr!_chkstk
0000001ab442fc40 00007ff9f0d316ad kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0xd
0000001ab442fc70 00007ff9f1e54409 ntdll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x1d

What is it telling me? I see a lot of calls to the CLR, but I can't understand where would the problem be. After the .reload (suggested by Thomas) now I can see the GC calls.

Update 1

After running xperf, each w3wp.exe is consuming something about 45% of CPU. Filtering by one of them and grouping by Function, there is a function labeled as "?" that is responsible for 13.62%, the others are 2.67% or less. How do I manage to know what is this "?"?

Update 2

Ran xperf again, and function JIT_MonEnterWorker_InlineGetThread_GetThread_PatchLabel is responsible for 12.31% of CPU usage. The "?" function still stays there.

Grouping by Stack:

Line #, Stack, Count, Weight (in view), TimeStamp, % Weight
2,   |- ?!?, 501191, 501222.365294, , 35.51
3,   |    |- clr.dll!JITutil_MonContention, 215749, 215752.552227, , 15.28
4,   |    |- clr.dll!JIT_MonEnterWorker_InlineGetThread_GetThread_PatchLabel, 170804, 170777.100191, , 12.10

As you can see, those two are responsible for more than 27% of CPU usage (for each process, so it is significant).

Update 3

After using wpr.exe (suggestion by @magicandre1981):

wpr.exe -start cpu and wpr -stop result.etl

I found out that FormsAuthentication and some unnecessary calls to Ninject on critical path were contributing to around 16% of CPU usage. I still don't understand the threads running gor 10 minutes or more.

Update 4

Tried DebugDiag (suggestion from @leppie) and it just confirmed that the threads hanging are all similar to:

Thread ID: 53     Total CPU Time: 00:09:11.406     Entry Point for Thread: clr!Thread::intermediateThreadProc 
Thread ID: 35     Total CPU Time: 00:07:26.046     Entry Point for Thread: clr!SVR::gc_heap::gc_thread_stub 
Thread ID: 50     Total CPU Time: 00:07:01.515     Entry Point for Thread: clr!SVR::gc_heap::gc_thread_stub 
Thread ID: 29     Total CPU Time: 00:06:02.264     Entry Point for Thread: clr!SVR::gc_heap::gc_thread_stub 
Thread ID: 31     Total CPU Time: 00:06:41.281     Entry Point for Thread: clr!SVR::gc_heap::gc_thread_stub 

or due to StackExchange.Redis:

DomainBoundILStubClass.IL_STUB_PInvoke(Int32, IntPtr[], IntPtr[], IntPtr[], TimeValue ByRef)+e1 
[[InlinedCallFrame] (StackExchange.Redis.SocketManager.select)] StackExchange.Redis.SocketManager.select(Int32, IntPtr[], IntPtr[], IntPtr[], TimeValueByRef) 
StackExchange.Redis.SocketManager.ReadImpl()+889 
StackExchange.Redis.SocketManager.Read()+66 

or

[[GCFrame]] 
[[HelperMethodFrame_1OBJ] (System.Threading.Monitor.ObjWait)] System.Threading.Monitor.ObjWait(Boolean, Int32, System.Object) 
mscorlib_ni!System.Threading.Monitor.Wait(System.Object, Int32)+19 
StackExchange.Redis.ConnectionMultiplexer.ExecuteSyncImpl[[System.__Canon, mscorlib]](StackExchange.Redis.Message, StackExchange.Redis.ResultProcessor`1, StackExchange.Redis.ServerEndPoint)+24f 
StackExchange.Redis.RedisBase.ExecuteSync[[System.__Canon, mscorlib]](StackExchange.Redis.Message, StackExchange.Redis.ResultProcessor`1, StackExchange.Redis.ServerEndPoint)+77 
[[StubHelperFrame]] 
StackExchange.Redis.RedisDatabase.SetMembers(StackExchange.Redis.RedisKey, StackExchange.Redis.CommandFlags)+ee 

Answer 1

Doing this by hand needs bravery ;) Please check this Official MS DebugDiag 2.2: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49924 it has come with analyzer so you don't have to do with your hand. With DebugDiag, I think you will find your problem faster then ever...