We're not running the VM at the moment - we've put it back to the physical machine, which is still exhibiting the behavior.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 14:55, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Start with 1 vCPU then check your CPU and memory on your VM. Having > multiple cpu's can actually hurt performance of a VM unless it truely needs > multiple CPU's. We start with 1 vCPU on all of our VM's. Also check your > HAL if you are trying to run a uniprocessor HAL on multiprocessor machine > > Mike > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Kurt Buff [email protected] > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:45:59 -0700 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Pool consumption (was: Re: Virtualized server issue...) > > > Have added the reg entry, and am examining poolmon output. > > The server needed to be rebooted again today, so the reg entry should now be > active. I note that in perfmon Pool Paged Allocs for this machine had > slammed to the ceiling, although nothing else seemed to be > > Poolmon is proving problematic - I've examined the top two memory eaters, > and am either getting too many or no hits. > > At 10:12 this morning, I took this reading, and a few minutes later had to > reboot the box. > > Memory: 1047456K Avail: 220432K PageFlts: 47 InRam Krnl: 2912K > P:281220K > Commit: 570560K Limit:3053000K Peak: 580612K Pool N:35804K > P:282140K > System pool information > Tag Type Allocs Frees Diff Bytes Per > Alloc > > Se Paged 13914251 ( 0) 1770996 ( 0) 12143255 243309424 ( 0) > 20 > MmSt Paged 755490 ( 9) 753741 ( 9) 1749 15544008 ( 0) > 8887 > > Memory: 1047456K Avail: 229772K PageFlts: 66 InRam Krnl: 2912K > P:281000K > Commit: 570396K Limit:3053000K Peak: 580612K Pool N:35776K > P:281920K > System pool information > Tag Type Allocs Frees Diff Bytes Per > Alloc > > MmCm Nonp 1090 ( 0) 15 ( 0) 1075 7864864 ( 0) > 7316 > LSwi Nonp 1 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 1 2576384 ( 0) > 2576384 > > As the winner and new champeen, Se is at least an order of magnitude larger > than its closes competitor. However, the Se tag is in lots of files, so I > prefixed it in the findstr command with 'h' per the KB article. That > narrowed it considerably, but what's left pretty much looks to be MSFT > files, and there are still 21 files. > > MsSt is simply not found anywhere, nor is MmCm,. though LSwi shows in > srv.sys - I note that the Se tag is also found in the latter. > > Later today, perhaps after standard business hours, I'll reenable Active > Protection for VIPRE on this machine, and copy a lot of files to it. If > that's the issue, it should start spiking pretty quickly. > > 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/> ~ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - > http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE > > > > ~ 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/> ~
