Re: SBS 2003 Premium needs to be restarted every few days

What RAID controller are you using? There is a known problem with some motherboard integrated RAID controller doing mirroing to SATA and/or IDE drives. The RAID controller itself has a low level resource leak that is happening at the hardware level and the behaviour is exactly as you describe. I had this problem on one server and if I didn't schedule an automatic reboot twice a week, I was out of luck. Put up with it for a while, using an automatic script to schedule the reboot every Tuesday and Saturday morning at 1 AM until I could replace the controller with a standalone SATA controller. (A HighPoint, FWIW.) Since the replacement I haven't seen a problem at all - it's been up for 4 weeks now.

I had to do a Swing Migration to do the rebuild, but the whole process was fairly painless.

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"Aleksandar" <Aleksandar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3424AAA3-5EE6-4DBC-8F81-61785F0FF95D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


"Leythos" wrote:

On Mon, 07 May 2007 04:33:00 -0700, Aleksandar wrote:
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> OK, let me be more specific on the original instalation itself. > Originaly
> SBS2003 Premium came witohout any SP for Server 2003 or SBS. It had SP1 > for
> Exchange and SP3a for SQL. After instalation I installed other SP's : > SP4 for
> SQL, SP1 for Server 2003, SP1 for SBS and SP2 for Exchange. I didnt > installed
> SP2 for server 2003 because of the issues it has with MS POP3 connector > for
> Exchange and MMC 3.0. Other than that there is no 3rd party software
> installed on the machine. I did that same installation (apart from SP2 > for
> exchange) exactly one year earlier and everything worked perfectly > until SP2
> for Exchange is installed. Now compleatly deleted server software and
> performed clean install and applied mentioned SP's and the problem is > the
> same. Hope it helps

So you are not running any AV software on the server at all?

What event errors are you getting?

What errors after Sp2 are you getting that you were not getting before SP2?

What server (model/vendor) are you loading this on?

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Yes I tried different AV solutions but that is not problem for sure. I
removed all AV software for testing purpose but the problem persist. There is
no errors in log at all until the mentioned slow down and eventual restart
happens. When server stops responding to client requests application log is
overflowed by Exchange: Unable to open LDAP session on directory 'SERVER'
using port number 389. Directory returned the LDAP error:[0x1] Operations
Error. That error is because system resources are drained so the DC cannot
answer the request. In System Event Log there is an error: The server was
unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the pool was empty.
This is also because of the memory being drained by LSASS.

Before SP2 there were no errors and the server worked for couple of months
without need to be restarted (except for updates)

The server is OEM built Intel P4 3.0 Ghz, 2 x 120 Gb RAID 1, 2 x 250 Gb Raid
1, 1.5 GB RAM. Tested same config on other machine but with same result.

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