Re: Setting Pagefile to help with Userenv 1508

Hey there TP,

I can't reproduce the user message that pops up, because it hasn't happened
again since I changed the Pagefile. However here is what the log file shows.
The same series of messages occur for various users. This is 64 bit
version. :(

Keeping about 2.1GB free on C drive now

Commit charge
total 569,072
Limit 4,990,764
Peak 670,528

Physical Memory
Total 2,095,100
Available 1,394,644
System Cache 479,344


Commit Charge (bottom right Task Manager)
550M/4873M

userenv 1511
Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary
profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.

userenv 1515
Windows has backed up this user's profile. Windows will automatically try to
use the backed up profile the next time this user logs on.

userenv 1502
Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this
error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile. If
this problem persists, contact your network administrator.

DETAIL - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process.

Userenv 1508
Windows was unable to load the registry. This is often caused by
insufficient memory or insufficient security rights.

DETAIL - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process. for C:\Documents and Settings\noel.posavec\ntuser.dat

THANKS TP!!





"TP" wrote:

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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