Re: [SA-list] GDI Objects

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:21:20 -0800

Thanks for checking - I appreciate it.
-Devin

 
On 1/31/06, Dirk Bulinckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If we can't see them with perfmon or snmp then we can't monitor them.
 

Dirk.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Devin Meade
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [SA-list] GDI Objects

 
Task manager / processes tab / view / select columns / check "GDI Objects"
This creates a GDI objects column
 
I have one 2003 print server that has an intermittent "GDI object" leak - spoolsv.exe allocates 9000+ GDI Objects and then print jobs quit.  What happens is that the spoolsv.exe process starts allocating GDI Objects and after (I think) an hour or so, the event log starts getting eventid 6161 and 6162 entires.  Then print jobs fail.  This is a very intermittent problem.  I know I can alert on eventlog entries, but my phone is normally ringing because noone can print :-(.
 
So what I want is to do is alert when the GDI object leak starts for the spoolsv.exe process . . . .    I am trying to isolate which printer is causing this and this might help.  Normally this value is zero, but when it goes up, it never goes down until the print spooler service is restarted.
 
FYI2- I found this - taskinfo - http://www.iarsn.com/download.html and it has this kind of alert - but just locally.
 
Thanks again -Devin
 
On 1/31/06, Dirk Bulinckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
And how would you look at them?
Via perfmon?
 

Dirk.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Devin Meade
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SA-list] GDI Objects

 
Group,
 
Is there any way to monitor total GDI Objects in use on a W2003 Server? 
 
I didn't see any posts in the archives about this.  I do see NT Perfmon (and NT Process), but "GDI Objects" is not an option.
 
Thanks in advance,
Devin
 
 



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