Hello,
I am running a windows 2003 standard edition server as a domain controller with Exchange 2003 standard edition installed. We haven't had issues with this configuration up until about 2 weeks ago. I've read other forums on this issue including Nino Bilics post at on the MS Exchange team's BLOG. Here is the issue: One day the above mentioned server gave us a virtual memory error and informed us that it was changing the virtual memory size. I opened up task manager after about 7 unsuccesfull tries (it kept giving me memory errors while trying to open it, I finally had to close out the eTrust real time monitor to get it to open) I noticed the following in task manager:
Store.exe
- memory usage: 881,684 K
- Page Faults: 1,100,983
- Virtual memory size: 1,444,728 K and climbing
MAD.exe
- memory usage: 16,876 K
- page faults: 26,737
- virtual memory size: 1,123,044 K
svchost.exe
- memory usage: 16,876 K
- page faults: 79,985
- virtual memory size: 1,111,756 K
This seems odd to me. I know store.exe is supposed to grab as much memory as it needs, and reallocate it as it sees fit, but seems rather high to me. It looks like these 3 processes are just munching away at the virtual memory on the server. I've also started getting complaints about outlook running slow and acting funny from end users. On my own email I am unable to pull up HTML messages that contain images, I get a memory error from Outlook. This server has 2 gb of RAM and a 2 ghz xeon processor. The only apps running on this server are eTrust antivirus 7 and the backup exec remote client. I've added the /3GB and /Userva=3030 switches to the boot.ini file as well.
Any ideas or help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I am running a windows 2003 standard edition server as a domain controller with Exchange 2003 standard edition installed. We haven't had issues with this configuration up until about 2 weeks ago. I've read other forums on this issue including Nino Bilics post at on the MS Exchange team's BLOG. Here is the issue: One day the above mentioned server gave us a virtual memory error and informed us that it was changing the virtual memory size. I opened up task manager after about 7 unsuccesfull tries (it kept giving me memory errors while trying to open it, I finally had to close out the eTrust real time monitor to get it to open) I noticed the following in task manager:
Store.exe
- memory usage: 881,684 K
- Page Faults: 1,100,983
- Virtual memory size: 1,444,728 K and climbing
MAD.exe
- memory usage: 16,876 K
- page faults: 26,737
- virtual memory size: 1,123,044 K
svchost.exe
- memory usage: 16,876 K
- page faults: 79,985
- virtual memory size: 1,111,756 K
This seems odd to me. I know store.exe is supposed to grab as much memory as it needs, and reallocate it as it sees fit, but seems rather high to me. It looks like these 3 processes are just munching away at the virtual memory on the server. I've also started getting complaints about outlook running slow and acting funny from end users. On my own email I am unable to pull up HTML messages that contain images, I get a memory error from Outlook. This server has 2 gb of RAM and a 2 ghz xeon processor. The only apps running on this server are eTrust antivirus 7 and the backup exec remote client. I've added the /3GB and /Userva=3030 switches to the boot.ini file as well.
Any ideas or help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
