SQL Server many active create procedure processes While troubleshooting performance issues on a SQL 2008 instance, I've noticed there are several SPIDs which appear to be executingcreate procedurestatements for already existing procedures.

Is this part of SQL's normal internal functioning, or do I have some odd application logic going on here? I can find these procedures listed in SSMS, and it says they were created years ago. 

Thanks.
This is not running the create procedure statements. The text you are receiving is the body of the procedure that has been called, not the actual call (I assume you are catching SP:Completed and not SP:StmtCompleted). If you are looking at for example sys.dm_exec_sql_text() you should also get start_offset and end_offset values that will allow you to pinpoint the actual text that is being executed as part of the call, and there are also ways to see the actual call but it depends largely on how you are monitoring now and how you are sending your procedure calls to SQL Server.