Re: Setting Pagefile to help with Userenv 1508

Hi,

Please post the exact error messages in the order that they appear in your log.

When this problem occurs, are *all* users unable to logon, or just certain users? If one or more users log off, are the user or users who had the problem able to logon (without restarting)?

Just to confirm, you are running the 64-bit edition of 2003?

In general, what numbers are you seeing for commit charge total, paged, nonpaged memory?

Thanks.

-TP

xrbbaker wrote:
I'm running Win2003 x64, 2 GB RAM, dual Xeon processors.
80 GB drive
C: partition = 12.89
D: partition = 60.45 (according to Belarc)
Pagefile 2048-4096 on C:


This box serves solely as a terminal server. At most I have 3 people
logged on to it at the same time, typically just 1. We frequently
have issues where when logging in Windows the box says it can't load
their profile. The event viewer shows the 1508 suite of messages. If I reboot the machine the problem goes away for a day or a few
days, and then it is back and I have to reboot again.

From the posts it seems this is typically caused by low resources. I'm ruling out security rights since it does work most of the time. My C: drive has only about 1.15GB free. I notice that prior to
reboot I'll have 1.15 free, and after reboot I still have 1.15 free,
but as I say, then things start working again.

Is it possible that 1.15 GB is not enough free space on the C drive? Could that be the lack of resources that is choking up Windows? It
seems hard for me to believe that we are stressing out this box with
1-2 people a few hours a day running things like Word and Excel.

I read some posts about maybe the Pagefile being part of the problem.
I've just now changed the Pagefile setting to C: 1024-2048 and added
a second Pagefile to D: 2048-4096. This leaves 2+ GB free on my C: However, now I'm reading on
http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm that I shouldn't
have allocated 2 Pagefiles on the same partition because the drive
head will swing around like crazy.

My D: drive has 50GB free. I'd like to have the Pagefile over there
on the D partition, but the above link also states that you should
always leave some allocation on the C drive!!

Can someone give me some advice for how I should configure Pagefile to
hopefully leave more resources available, which hopefully will
mitigate the 1508 issues?

Thanks for any insight,
.

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