"Friendly" and "Poolmon" don't really sit very comfortably in the same sentence... ;-)
Thanks Mark - I'll let you know how I get on. Ian _________________________________ Ian K Gray OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support Tel: +44 1236 502661 Mob: +44 7881 518854 Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit "Mark Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> 28/01/2008 15:10 Please respond to Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> To Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> cc Subject RE: [SA-list] Memory Leak The good news is that you know it is NPP memory only. The bad news is you have more to check with your next friendly tool Poolmon.exe ;0) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177415 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177415) Mark Perry Systems & Networks Administrator Telephonetics VIP Ltd “making sound business sense” Simply dial +44 (0)1442 242 242 and ask for me by name. www.telephoneticsVIP.co.uk (http://www.telephoneticsvip.co.uk/) Providing innovative hosted and customer premises speech recognition and voice automation solutions. Disclaimer: available at http://www.telephoneticsVIP.co.uk/telephonetics/emaildisclaimer.jsp (http://www.telephoneticsvip.co.uk/telephonetics/emaildisclaimer.jsp) or by sending email to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) applies to this email. Registered address: 7th Floor, Hamilton House, 111 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP1 1BB Registered in England No: 2831215 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 January 2008 14:51 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] Memory Leak Thanks for that Mark - it was very helpful, but the result was rather negative! To explain: I've added perfmon checks for NPP memory of all running processes, plus one for Memory - Pool Nonpaged Bytes. The latter increases steadily as mentioned in my original mail, but every other check remains constant (including Process - Pool Nonpaged Bytes, Total), which I don't quite understand. I know that Memory - NPP and Process - NPP are measured in different ways (because it says so on the "Explain" button), but I don't know how or why... So, in short, I can see that there is a problem with NPP memory, but I can't see a problem with NPP on any specific process (including, just for the record, Servers Alive). Any ideas? Ian _________________________________ Ian K Gray OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support Tel: +44 1236 502661 Mob: +44 7881 518854 Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit "Mark Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> 25/01/2008 14:10 Please respond to Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> To Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> cc Subject RE: [SA-list] Memory Leak Sorry when you say "check" are you using the performance monitoring feature in Windows (perfmon)? Sorry if you alreay know this.... but That utility is your friend in cases like this, my suggestion would be to identify processes which are most likely to be the culprits e.g. will probably show as top memory hogs in taskmgr or in the command tasklist Then configure a perfmon to monitor the "pool paged bytes" and "pool non paged bytes" over a week and this should show which process or processes are growing in size. P.S. Is IIS running on this box? You can check what services are running under a process with the following syntax "tasklist /svc", IIS can be a beast and runs as inetinfo.exe Mark Perry Systems & Networks Administrator Telephonetics VIP Ltd “making sound business sense” Simply dial +44 (0)1442 242 242 and ask for me by name. www.telephoneticsVIP.co.uk (http://www.telephoneticsvip.co.uk/) Providing innovative hosted and customer premises speech recognition and voice automation solutions. Disclaimer: available at http://www.telephoneticsVIP.co.uk/telephonetics/emaildisclaimer.jsp (http://www.telephoneticsvip.co.uk/telephonetics/emaildisclaimer.jsp) or by sending email to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) applies to this email. Registered address: 7th Floor, Hamilton House, 111 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP1 1BB Registered in England No: 2831215 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 January 2008 12:46 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] Memory Leak Good question. I've been monitoring overall NPP memory - I've now added a check looking at NPP memory in use by the SA process. If you know a better way of checking that, please let me know! Cheers, Ian _________________________________ Ian K Gray OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support Tel: +44 1236 502661 Mob: +44 7881 518854 Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit "Mark Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> 25/01/2008 10:45 Please respond to Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> To Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> cc Subject RE: [SA-list] Memory Leak You mentioned a memory leak on your SA Box, is the leak with the salive Process? Mark Perry Systems & Networks Administrator Telephonetics VIP Ltd “making sound business sense” Simply dial +44 (0)1442 242 242 and ask for me by name. www.telephoneticsVIP.co.uk (http://www.telephoneticsvip.co.uk/) Providing innovative hosted and customer premises speech recognition and voice automation solutions. Disclaimer: available at http://www.telephoneticsVIP.co.uk/telephonetics/emaildisclaimer.jsp (http://www.telephoneticsvip.co.uk/telephonetics/emaildisclaimer.jsp) or by sending email to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) applies to this email. Registered address: 7th Floor, Hamilton House, 111 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP1 1BB Registered in England No: 2831215 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 January 2008 09:56 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] Memory Leak Folks, Is anyone else experiencing a memory leak on their SA box? We've just realised that we've got a steady NPP leak - just over 10Mb per week - which is the cause of some of the MRxSmb errors we've been having (and doubtless others). Don't know how long it's been going on for - at least since mid December. 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