Insufficient System Resources 2003 server

[Chris Roberts_9]

I have a windows 2003 server with 6 146Gb disks. These are data servers and holds about 400Gb the problem I am getting is that after being up and running for a few days the server seems to run out of resources and mapped drives stop working and a remote login is refused. I have to visist the server reboot it and it is fine again for a while. The server has 4Gb Memory and a system managed page file at 4096Gb. I have tried to make the page file larger but this seems to be the maximum amount I can have. the only application the server runs is veritas 9.1. The memory allocation looks okay and seems to have more memory to allocate but for some reason cannot or does not. Can anyone help?

[Luis Valencia]

It seems that you have a Memory Leak somewhere.

If Veritas is fully patched to run on 2003, then you will have to monitor the server with other tools.

One thing you can do is monitor the server using HP Systems Insight Manager 4.1 SP1 and install one of the available ProLiant Performance Monitor licenses on that server.

It will be of great help to troubleshoot performance problems.

Luis

[Rune J. Winje]

Check out
"How To Improve Windows 2003 File Server Performance"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555041

Otherwise also use some kind of performance monitoring or go into My Computer > Manage > Shared folders > Sessions/Open files to get an idea if there is a huge amount of open files or not.

There could be some resouce limitation on number of open file handles etc that can be edited via the registry.

Also look for error messages in the server and client event log (and sometimes DC event logs if authentication problems).


Cheers,
Rune

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
the limit for pagefile is of 4096Mb per DRIVE.

IT means that you can have multiple paging files, but on different drives.

At least, AFAIK, this was a limitation for w2k, but looks like it's the same on w2k3.

As other have suggested, try monitoring the memory.

HTH,
Massimo

[David Mackey]

That is the first I have heard of a limitation on page file size per drive on Server 2003. Can anyone confirm this?
David.

[Blazhev_1]

Hi,

according

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/254649

The maximum page file size is 4GB, can be set up to 16B if you have /PAE enabled in boot.ini (after /fastdetect ).

However, I think too that this is not the problem, imho you have a memory leak caused

e.g. check :
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/263139.htm

There seem to be even more memory leak problems cause by Veritas...

Regards

[Blazhev_1]

Oops,
now I saw that the original thread is from 2004 :)