Server Crash

Hi All once a week mainly on sunday night the sbs2000 box stops working. It
basically will not let the administrator log on and all connectivity to it is
dead. After a hard reboot it comes up ok and the only thing in the event
viewer is as follows: The server was unable to allocate from the system paged
pool because the pool was empty. There is no special 3rd party software on it
and it only has started hapening a few months ago. Has anyone got any ideas
please. We had a similar problem on another sbs2000 box and we resolved that
by upgrading to sbs2003 !!
Any help is much apreciated.
Paris

Henry
Thu Apr 28 19:31:46 CDT 2005

see:
Server is unable to allocate memory from the system paged pool
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q312362/


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Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
CI Information Technology
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Melbourne SBS Users Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/


"Paris" <Paris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8FCA2589-99F0-4E5D-8BED-24EA0ED3FA16@microsoft.com...
> Hi All once a week mainly on sunday night the sbs2000 box stops
> working. It
> basically will not let the administrator log on and all connectivity
> to it is
> dead. After a hard reboot it comes up ok and the only thing in the
> event
> viewer is as follows: The server was unable to allocate from the
> system paged
> pool because the pool was empty. There is no special 3rd party
> software on it
> and it only has started hapening a few months ago. Has anyone got any
> ideas
> please. We had a similar problem on another sbs2000 box and we
> resolved that
> by upgrading to sbs2003 !!
> Any help is much apreciated.
> Paris

Paris
Fri Apr 29 03:10:04 CDT 2005

Henry Thank you i will try this and let you know next week if it worked. Do i
also need to change the value of PagedPoolSize to ffffffff from 0?
thanks

"Henry Craven [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

> see:
> Server is unable to allocate memory from the system paged pool
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q312362/
>
>
> --
> Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
> CI Information Technology
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Melbourne SBS Users Group
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/
>
>
> "Paris" <Paris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8FCA2589-99F0-4E5D-8BED-24EA0ED3FA16@microsoft.com...
> > Hi All once a week mainly on sunday night the sbs2000 box stops
> > working. It
> > basically will not let the administrator log on and all connectivity
> > to it is
> > dead. After a hard reboot it comes up ok and the only thing in the
> > event
> > viewer is as follows: The server was unable to allocate from the
> > system paged
> > pool because the pool was empty. There is no special 3rd party
> > software on it
> > and it only has started hapening a few months ago. Has anyone got any
> > ideas
> > please. We had a similar problem on another sbs2000 box and we
> > resolved that
> > by upgrading to sbs2003 !!
> > Any help is much apreciated.
> > Paris
>
>
>

Henry
Fri Apr 29 07:37:51 CDT 2005

Well, 0xFFFFFFFF if you are going to try that solution, but to me that
is putting a bandaid on a gashing wound.

To me the essence of the article, isn't the Kludgy fix.
I'd be looking for the -cause- of the problem, namely:
"which driver is consuming paged pool memory."

You need to understand the Windows O/S and networking and use tools like
Poolmon, Perfmon, Process Explorer from Sysinternals etc to debug the
system.

How to Use Memory Pool Monitor (Poolmon.exe) to Troubleshoot Kernel Mode
Memory Leaks
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q177415/

Process Explorer
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml

--
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
CI Information Technology
----------------------------------------------------
Melbourne SBS Users Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/


"Paris" <Paris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C2A3C07C-AF70-4295-A286-0C9B4C3B5C62@microsoft.com...
> Henry Thank you i will try this and let you know next week if it
> worked. Do i
> also need to change the value of PagedPoolSize to ffffffff from 0?
> thanks
>

TK
Sun May 01 13:24:22 CDT 2005

Henry is correct, you need to find the cause of the problem. I had the same
issue with a client's Win2k SBS box. I ran the performance monitor on paged
and unpaged memory pools and found that the UPS software was causing the
issue. Removed the software and the problems have not been back.

-TK
M/T Box Computers


"Paris" <Paris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8FCA2589-99F0-4E5D-8BED-24EA0ED3FA16@microsoft.com...
> Hi All once a week mainly on sunday night the sbs2000 box stops working.
> It
> basically will not let the administrator log on and all connectivity to it
> is
> dead. After a hard reboot it comes up ok and the only thing in the event
> viewer is as follows: The server was unable to allocate from the system
> paged
> pool because the pool was empty. There is no special 3rd party software on
> it
> and it only has started hapening a few months ago. Has anyone got any
> ideas
> please. We had a similar problem on another sbs2000 box and we resolved
> that
> by upgrading to sbs2003 !!
> Any help is much apreciated.
> Paris