Groupshield has been known to cause STORE.EXE to do exactly what you are describing. I'm wondering if there were occaisions where a lousy DAT file would cause that.
Check NAI's site. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store memory utilization is out of control Groupsheild is in use and we haven't had any issues...have you experienced many problems? Thanks, -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store memory utilization is out of control It shouldn't use so much that it will kill the server, but what you read is wrong. Don't limit the amount of RAM used via Optimizer. That is band-aiding the real problem. Store.exe will use ALL available memory if it can and needs it. My server has 1gb of mem and Store.exe is humming happily along using about 620mb worth of it. Are you running Gropeshield (I mean Groupshield) on your server? I'm pretty sure there was a advertised problem. How's your CPU usage? High as well? Let us know. Ben Winzenz, MCSE Network/Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Waycik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:43 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store memory utilization is out of control But so much that it kills the server? I read Q182505 and from this it looks like Exchange server will use TotalRAM/4, so in the case of the server witn 512M, Exchange will use up to 128M. Am I miss-reading something there? I have not used perfomrance optimizer yet, but will. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Preston Jeffares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store memory utilization is out of control This is common. STORE.EXE will use all available memory unless manually limited in the Optimizer. -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Waycik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Information Store memory utilization is out of control I look after two servers for clients with Exchange Server 5.5 SP4 installed. Recently, one of the server's STORE.EXE process (lets call it SERVER1) started going out of control with respect to memory utilization. It starts at a reasonable 5M to 10M of memory used, then gradually climbs to about 300M. If I stop and restart the IS service, 400M to 500M of memory will clear up and STORE.EXE will drop down to it's usual 5M to 10M. If I don't stop and restart, the server starts to crumble, complaining about running out of memory. Software Installed on both Servers Are: Microsoft Small Business Server 4.5 Inoculan for Small Business Server (i was young and foolish) ArcServe for Small Business Server (ditto) Latest Service Packs and hotfixes for OS SP4 for Exchange, no hotfixes Memory for SERVER1 = 512M Memory for SERVER2 = 384M The one thing they have done recently is to upgrade their Internet service to DSL. SERVER1 network was upgraded first and almost immediately they began having this problem. The other server's network was upgraded last week but am not sure that the memory problem exactly coincided with the upgrade. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. ____________________________________________ Geoff Waycik MCSE Tel: 613 384-4210 Fax: 613 384-8981 [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
