I'm posting this to CF-Talk as CFMX 6 and 7 paired with W2k3 SP1 seems to be the only common thread to this problem when Googling for a solution.
Running on W2k3 SP1 Standard Server with CFMX running and accessing it via Terminal Services has had the annoying side effect of driving up the memory usage of winlogon.exe into the hundreds of MB. This issue has plagued our server since the SP1 upgrade and the only solution I knew of until today was to reboot the machine periodically because winlogon.exe cannot be stopped. The new solution I have discovered for this memory leak is to logon locally at the console. A logon where you are present at the machine flushes the winlogon process freeing all the unused memory. For me, the issue here is that our server it 200 miles away and I can't just drive down the road to login to it every week to keep the memory down... After some more Googling, I found a fix to the problem of having a long drive by simply adding " /console" to the mstsc.exe command in the shortcut or invoking the TS client from a command prompt using "mstsc /console". This emulates a local login and flushes the previously large amount of memory back into the pool for other applications to use. I just tried it and free'd up 400 MB of RAM. Beautiful! Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:223366 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
