Windows 2003 File Server Memory Leak
Having a problem with our Win2k3 server in which users are not able to access file shares. Seems to be happening about once a day. The error is "Not enough server storage is available to process this command". When problem occurs, unable to open management console on server w/ "Insufficient system resource" errors. The system log is reporting Srv Errors (2020 - "The Server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty.")
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Hypercat (Deb)
Sounds like a problem with virtual memory. Either some program is leaking memory, or you are running too many memory-hog programs on this one server. If your virtual memory is set to the standard Windows server configuration, then the first thing I would do is to set it to a manual configuration and allocate at least 1.5 times the physical RAM to the page file, up to a max of about 4-5GB.
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The /3GB switch restricts the system address space to 1GB instead of the usual 2GB. This will reduce the size of the paged pool. The iswitch is rarely useful on a file server.
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Graded LMiller7 higher since he answered first. Only used his part of the solution in madhurjya123's post, though madhurjya123 did a great job of explaining the problem.