Thanks for that link, I've wanted something like this for a while now. Yeah maybe not a week... just a day or two, which feels like a week when it's a critical server ;)
Bryan Lucas Server Administrator Texas Christian University -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] DC crashing / LSASS --> memory leak http://blogs.technet.com/petergal/archive/2006/03/23/422993.aspx Then do it yourself... and they've never taken a week to call me back. Lucas, Bryan wrote: > > I went that route actually. I unplugged, rebooted and it was fine. > After I browsed some file properties, LSASS sucked up a bunch of RAM > (caching I presume) and then stabilized ~500MB. After 30 minutes, I > plugged it back in and it got drilled during replication but then > returned to normal and so far so good. Been about an hour now. > > Its an older slower single CPU box and our only 2000 DC left, it will > be demoted very soon after this incident ;) > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > I did call PSS btw and they wanted the typical dump and analyze and > we'll call you in a week or so. No time for that unfortunately. > > Bryan Lucas > > Server Administrator > > Texas Christian University > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Roger Longden > *Sent:* Saturday, November 04, 2006 8:09 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] DC crashing / LSASS --> memory leak > > Assuming you have a Premier support agreement I suggest calling PSS > and/or your TAM. I'd be curious if you see the same issue with the DC > unplugged from the network. In other words, I'd suspect malicious > activity (could be viral/worms/Trojans) as a prime candidate. I don't > recall seeing many memory leaks in lsass.exe in 2000 SP4. > > - Roger > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Lucas, Bryan > *Sent:* Saturday, November 04, 2006 2:50 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [ActiveDir] DC crashing / LSASS --> memory leak > > I've got a Win2000 SP4 box that I believe has LSASS crashing leading > to a huge run on memory causing the system to page and yield a Virtual > Memory is too low... type error and all access to the server is cutoff > essentially (other than local logon). > > After rebooting twice and watching TaskMgr, I see LSASS spike for > about 4-8 seconds, then flatline and memory starts going nuts. The box > becomes extremely unresponsive. I'm rebooting to safe mode now to > review the logs, but in the mean time does anyone have any ideas? > > The box has been fairly stable for a long time now. > > Bryan Lucas > > Server Administrator > > Texas Christian University > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
