Re: SBS 2003 Standard - Nonpaged Leak in "File objects"

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Maybe compare your box to a "virgin" install of W2K3 on an IDE based system
and see which driver containing the "File" string is unique?

Mal Osborne
MCSE MVP Mensa


"Rob Davies" <rob.davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OwFP9CrlFHA.3568@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Yeah, that was my last-ditch effort before I posted, but it's contained in
> several of the core Windows drivers (e.g., afd, dfs, mountmgr, netbios,
> tcpip...), so it didn't really narrow it down any.
>
> Thanks, though. :)
>
> Rob.
>
> Mal Osborne wrote:
>> Tried searching for the text string "file" in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS
>> ?
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298102/EN-US/
>>
>> Mal Osborne
>> MCSE MVP Mensa
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Rob Davies" <rob.davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:uJRanZplFHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>>Hello all,
>>>
>>>Right, here's hoping someone has a clue as to what could be causing this,
>>>as I'm nearing the end of my tether... :)
>>>
>>>Running SBS 2003 Standard with SP1 on a Dell PowerEdge 400SC, with
>>>Promise S150 TX2plus SATA RAID (2 drives mirrored) and 1GB of ECC RAM.
>>>
>>>Problem is that there is a leak in the nonpaged pool from the
>>>"<unknown> - File objects" driver ("File" tag). Nothing else appears to
>>>be contributing, but this section of the kernel (I assume) is leaking
>>>about 27MB per day, resulting in Event 2019 and the system falling over
>>>every 4-5 days. Currently nonpaged memory usage is sitting at 120MB after
>>>3 days of running, which is insane (compared to another 2 systems running
>>>Win Server 2K3 Standard, one with Exchange and one without, which are
>>>using 18MB and 27MB repectively, the former after 29 days of uptime).
>>>
>>>I've updated the Promise SATA driver and removed Symantec Antivirus, but
>>>neither have made any difference. Nothing else in the nonpaged pool
>>>section of poolmon looks to be leaking anywhere near enough to contribute
>>>to this, and memsnap comparisons likewise only show "File" to be leaking.
>>>
>>>There's practically no software running on it that didn't come as part of
>>>SBS, save WSUS, but the leak was there before WSUS was installed.
>>>
>>>So, any ideas? Hope so, as I've run out! :D
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>
>>>Rob.
>>
>>

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