Re: Print spooler [spoolsv.exe] causes 70% CPU utilisation and eats memory on 2003 server causing crash
- From: "Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:11:40 -0700
This article may help.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828153
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"Dave" wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I have a dual CPU 2.4GHz Xeon server, with 1GB RAM, running Windows Server
| 2003 Standard. The print spooler service [spoolsv.exe] is causing on
average
| 70% CPU utilisation when there is no load on the server. If I stop
| spoolsv.exe the average CPU utilisation drops to approx. 2%.
|
| During normal operation the five networked laser printers will be unable
to
| print after about 15 mins until spoolsv.exe is restarted, then again after
| about 15 mins. When a restart is necessary the service doesn't show that
it
| has stopped, however. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers with no
| improvement.
|
| Task Manager shows spoolsv.exe using around 8MB of RAM when restarted and,
| even with no print jobs sent it steadily increases to over 300MB within
| about 25 mins before the server becomes unstable and ultimately crashes.
|
| It also prevents client software from authenticating with the server over
| the network with the clients returning 'incorrect username or password'
| messages until spoolsv.exe is stopped, at which point the clients can
| connect ok again.
|
| Any advice much appreciated.
|
| Dave.
|
|
|
.
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