AFDB tag in Poolmon using up non paged memory 1

[shorty545]

Does anyone know what the afdb tag in poolmon is related to. I am having a problem with the spoolsv.exe service allocating all non-paged pool memory, and i'm not sure if this tag could be related to the problem.

Any help would be great.

Jeremy

 

[xmsre]

I left in 2003, an honestly I haven't seen any improvement since then.

Regressings? Rare? How about every other version of the Exchange 2000 Post SP3 rollup? MS05 019 and Windows 2003 SP1? I could go on.

 

[SgtBeavis]

I left last year. In my experience (and my scope may be more limited that yours) it was reletively rare when you consider how many hotfixes are out there.

Microsoft Certified Nut.

 

[xmsre]

Which site? I was losely attached to Charlotte.

 

[SgtBeavis]

Las Colinas..

LC2 Perf

Microsoft Certified Nut.

 

[shorty545]

Hey guys...
Thanks for the help earlier but I've tried the hotfix and it does not solve the problem. AFDB continues to run wild and spoolsv continues to rise.

I'll try to update all drivers again and take all printers off line to trouble shoot one at a time.

thanks for your help...

Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

 

[xmsre]

It sounds very much like the same old problem afd.sys has had in the past, a winsock app isn't posting a receive correctly and afd is buffering endlessly. Updating the print drivers could provide some relief, I'd update the hp driver that uses the HP standard TCP/IP port, but I think this is one MS needs to work on to resolve the core issue with afd.sys.

 

[SgtBeavis]

Yea, I think xmsre is on the right track. You're going to need to get a poolmon and perfmon log along with a full memory dump. Someone at MS, with full access to debugging symbols, can find out what is forcing the issue. Either there is a memory allocation in afd.sys that is not freeing memory or there is another app that is doing that through afd.sys. Only a dump will say.

If you call MS for support, ask for Platform Performance Support. They support printing and memory issues. You'll get BOB from india. If you have a Premier support account, tell him you want escalation to Silver in the US. Tell him that to get his TEAM LEAD to give him a sign off on sending the case to Las Colinas (that is where the Perf team is located)

Microsoft Certified Nut.

 

[shorty545]

Finally got this issue resolved!!!

The solution was to remove all HP Standard TCP/IP ports. As for the printers that were using these ports, I manually created new ports using the Standard TCP/IP port and assigned the printers to use these ports.

Case closed.