Memory Leak on Windows 2000 Server

[Milleniumlegend]

I am trying to investigate this memory leak on the windows 2000 Server running a Service. Over the period of time it takes up more memory on the server. Then the memory on the server just goes down to about 5% of total available.

I have been looking at the performance monitor and monitored the Private bytes for the service and that remains is constant at 1:00 the maximum. Also the memory usage for the service increases to a certain amount. The pool page byte for the service is pretty constant.

Does anyone know how can I determine is the memory leak caused by the service or not.

Regards

 

[mattjurado]

When did this start? Has it always been this way?

Matt J.

Please always take the time to backup any and all data before performing any actions suggested for ANY problem, regardless of how minor a change it might seem. Also test the backup to make sure it is intact.

 

[Milleniumlegend]

No this has been happening for the last week or so. I was notified by our network specialist about this. Looking at the event log it comes up as Warning message and the source comes up as Srv (which I thought would be Services).
This is the description
" The server was unable to allocate a work item 22 times in the last 60 seconds. "

I was looking at the suspect service and performed a performance monitor on the service. It takes up upto 190K memory usage when seen on the task monitor. Not sure what the problem could be because we have this service running on two different boxes. The two boxes are exactly same, Same server, Same OS, Same memory and same disk allocation. And this happens only on one server and not the other.

I ran the private byte count for the service is looks to be fine. The pool page bytes for the service seems fine as well and the Handle count for the service is normal. This to me indicates that there is no memory leak with the service but it still chews up a lot of memory usage.

Any ideas ??

Thanks

 

[mattjurado]

Yes, many. But it will help to have the event id number? FYI, I would be looking the event id number up at

http://www.eventid.net,

and/or google.

Any other new events in the log? No matter how insignificant they might be, check both system and application.

Matt J.

Please always take the time to backup any and all data before performing any actions suggested for ANY problem, regardless of how minor a change it might seem. Also test the backup to make sure it is intact.