Page Faults in spoolsv.exe, how to find the culprit?

[penguinroundup]

I have a print server running Win2K3 sp1 that has about 50 shared printers installed. There's something that's causing the spooler service to generate gobs & gobs of page faults, eventually the spooler service just stops responding to requests. Jobs still pile up in the queues, but nothing ever prints out. We have to restart the spooler service to clear out the problem.

How do I figure out which print driver is causing the faults? I have Process Monitor running on the box, but honestly I'm not really sure what I'm looking for. How can I detect a corrupt driver or whatever obscure DLL is causing this to happen?

The only thing that has changed on the server since this started happening is we've disabled some printer reporting software (SharpAccountant) in the hopes that it would solve the problem, but it made no difference.

thanks,

 

[supportahm1980]

If most of the printers are the same why not update all the drivers.

You might also want to look up Cleanspl.exe: Spooler Cleaner

You should be careful when using this not to delete any TCP/IP connections or USB. Again I would test anything before using it.

 

[penguinroundup]

I never said they were all the same model, I have some HPs, some Canons, some Lexmark, some Sharp... I'm not about to update ALL the drivers on ALL the printers and take a chance of breaking something else. I want to fix the actual problem I'm having.