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Unable to allocate from the system paged pool

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rjs

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Apr 6, 1999
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4 identical Citrix XP FR3 Windows 2003 SP4 servers in a single farm with users connecting to a published desktop. Recently on each server, we will start getting error 2020 - "The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty".

Users cannot log on. Downing and restarting the server resolves the problem which then may not occur for a few days or even a week, then it will seem to hit 2-3 of the servers within the same day or over a period of days.

I did all the research on memory leaks, set up and reviewed performance monitors in detail. But nothing appears obvious.

My original assumption was a memory leak, however the servers reboot each night (2-4am) and the problem seems to happen much more in the morning than in the afternoon. If it was a memory leak, I would think to have more problems later in the day than first thing in the morning.

It can't be hardware since this happens on all 4 servers. But I don't know what else to look at.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.


R.Sobelman
 
rjs,
I used to have this exact same issue but on a Win2k box. The issue was happening when large files were being opened and the applicaiton was taken up the majority of the memory resources.

I found an article that fixed my issue and here is the link to it.
I did the registry change for the memory management and rebooted the server.
Once the server came back online....the issue was fixed (which I was very happy about..lol).

Hope this helps.

 
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