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Posted by Mr Durand on February 23, 2006, 12:36 am
Please log in for more thread options yes...temporarily it fixes the issue. It was 12 days between failures the
last time around now it seems like it is failing again a mere 7 hours later
after my last reboot.
Dave
> Does a reboot fix the problem?? Maybe enabling performance monitor logging
> for memory and CPU can give you an idea of what is going on. It could also
> be a hardware problem such as a flaky power supply or overheating CPU but
> those problems are usually not as regular. --- Steve
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>> The only problem is that it is running along fine and then goes out the
>> window in a matter of a minute or two and this is making it difficult to
>> see what state the system is in at the moment it starts happening.
>>
>> Dave
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>>> Does a reboot solve the problem? If so it sounds like you may have a
>>> memory leak on some process. I have not tried it myself but there are
>>> some Resource Kit tools called memmonitor and memtriage that may help
>>> troubleshoot such as shown in the link below. As soon as you experience
>>> reduction in performance be sure to check Task Manager for memory/CPU
>>> usage and it would be a good idea to use something like Process Explorer
>>> from SysInternals to save a baseline of what memory and CPU usage is for
>>> your processes when everything is running well. --- Steve
>>>
>>>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&DisplayLang=en
>>>
>>>>I have a Dell PowerEdge 2550 server running Windows 2003 SP1 and have
>>>>strange behavior occurring every 7-14 days. The server will always
>>>>respond to a ping however when the problems start, I notice services
>>>>start becoming choppy in response and eventually do not respond at
>>>>all....when it gets into this state, I cannot access the system with RDP
>>>>and the actual system console loses the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen which was
>>>>displayed prior to the trouble starting.
>>>>
>>>> The server runs the following apps/services
>>>>
>>>> IIS 6.0
>>>> Windows SharePoint Services
>>>> MSDE for SharePoint
>>>> XWall 3.34
>>>>
>>>> The server is protected by firewall appliances and the event logs show
>>>> no signs of any trouble on the system at anytime. A straight 2 hour
>>>> Dell hardware diag run reflected no problems on the system whatsoever.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea what direction I can take to resolve the issue? I'm convinced
>>>> it is software and maybe even specifically with the lsass engine but
>>>> can't confirm without any event entries to go on. This doesn't happen
>>>> frequently though it does consistently happen. The server has 3GB of
>>>> RAM and everytime I look in on it, it has more than half of the
>>>> physical RAM available with normal paging.
>>>>
>>>> I'm stumped....I'll call PSS if I have to but the problem is I can't
>>>> force the problem to occur making it more difficult to troubleshoot.
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>> Phoenix, Arizona
>>>>
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