Correct not a virtualization issue. I sent you a note offline as well regarding this.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 7:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualized server issue... Thanks, I'll look at thos. However, it looks like it wasn't the process of virtualization that was the problem. The physical machine just moments ago started doing the same thing - running out of memory and denying access to the shares. I'd been running perfmon to see if I could track the paged pool parameters, nd saw that page pool allocs were at around 28, with a scale of 0.0000010, the page pool bytes and page pool resident bytes were at around 20 with a scale of 0.0000001. I'm too frazzled at the moment to convert that to something useful. After reboot, the respective values are PPA at around 8 with a scale of 0.00001 and rising *very* fast, PPB and PPRB both at about 4 with a scale of 0.0000001 and rising not quite as fast. Looks like the SBAMSvc might have a role in this.. Stopping that has dramatically slowed the ascent of PPA, though it's still climbing, as are the other parameters.. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 15:29, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> wrote: > Kurt- > > Can you add the http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244139 CrashOnCtrlScroll > registry value and reboot? This will allow you to generate a dump next time > this happens (the hang, specifically) by pressing the /right/ Ctrl key and > Scroll Lock twice. > > Also, Poolmon can help tremendously here too for logging. > > Thanks, > Brian Desmond > [email protected] > > c - 312.731.3132 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:00 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Virtualized server issue... > > All, > > Over the weekend we virtualized our file/print server, and it seemed > to go well. Host is a Dell machine running ESX 3.5 update 2. > > The physical machine has an Intel HT processor and 1gbyte of RAM. I > gave the VM 2 procs and 2gbytes of RAM, just for good measure. > > Both machines were talking to our LeftHand SAN, on a separate physical > LAN, but today I had to reboot the VM, then a couple of hours later > shut it down and revert to the physical machine after it stopped > responding. > > The logs were indicating lack of server memory - specifically, these > were being emitted to my syslog server: > > 2009-03-30 14:05:12 User.Notice home-01 Mar 30 14:05:12 > home-01 MSWinEventLog 1 System 13892 Mon Mar 30 14:05:08 2009 > 2020 Srv Unknown User N/A Error HOME-01 None > 0000: 00 00 04 00 01 00 54 00 ....... 0008: 00 00 00 00 e4 07 00 c0 > ........ 0010: 00 00 00 00 9a 00 00 c0 ........ 0018: 00 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ > 0028: ae 04 00 00 d0 02 70 00 ....... The server was unable to > allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty. > > Then this, as I tried to log in to shut it down: > > 2009-03-30 14:09:39 User.Notice zet-home-01 Mar 30 > 14:09:39 zet-home-01 MSWinEventLog 1 Application 13935 Mon > Mar 30 14:09:39 2009 1512 Userenv SYSTEM User > Error ZET-HOME-01 None Windows cannot unload your > registry file. The memory used by the registry has not been freed. > This is often caused by services running as a user account, try > configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or > NetworkService account. If this problem persists, contact your > administrator. DETAIL - Insufficient system resources exist to > complete the requested service. 30 > > > and couldn't log in - I had to use psshutdown to make it go. > > I was starting to troubleshoot the paged pool issue, but didn't get > far enough into it before it required kick, and I reverted to the > physical box. > > Anyone have any ideas what might have been the problem, or where I can > start to look for clues? > > > Kurt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
