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If you run into this problems, you might
- Try remove all virtual printers (like Pdf Factory,...) and see if it work
- Completly re-install your OS.
- Try other OS like Windows 2003 or Vista.
Good luck
My I have Windows XP Pro SP2 running on Dell Inspiron laptop with 2GB of RAM installed behavious is unexpectedly after several hours without restart:
- Can start new program - try to start a program, but nothing show up and not found the corresponding process in the Task Manager t
- Cant open new windows - nothing show up
- The screen become something straight, window appear without menu or title bar.
- More terrifyingly, an Internet Explorer window can show text but all empty until i dragging cursor to select a text block
Search around doesn't help any, all i found is just something about IRPStackSize of Lanmanager system service but it just not working. Anyone faced the same?
Ah. The dual boot Vista installed is just work fine, then i can make sure that my laptop working well, and the problems is just my Windows XP configurating and installed softwares and components on it. And here is most comprehensive article attempt to fix that problems i found on a forum
You should be getting an event in the eventviewer on a machine exhibiting these symptoms - any idea what the source and event ID number are for these? Usually, this is a network issue caused by a low memory condition - the storage space in question isn't a storage space issue that you'd think of as in disk storage, but as in space in memory to store another request. You can try a few things to get around this, but it's almost always a low memory condition on the workstation that is causing these errors.
This can be caused by the server service running out of process memory, by a process on your system consuming memory handles and not releasing them properly (*cough*antivirus*cough), or even too many values in a particular registry key on the system (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\NullSessionPipes).
You can try a few things on your workstations to see which (if any) of the following makes any difference:
1. You can modify the IRPStackSize parameter in the registry to increase the memory size made available to new applications.
Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters
Value: IRPStackSize
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 15 (can set as high as 50)
The default in NT and 2000 is 11, and in XP and 2003 the default is 15. The allowed values are 11 - 50 for this entry. A higher number will result in more memory size available for new applications, but can cause issues on systems running large numbers of applications.
2. You can try increasing the "beef" of the Memory Manager in Windows by making the following changes (these need to be made as a set - you can't just set one or two, you have to use all or nothing or the changes won't make much difference):
Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
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Value: LargeSystemCache
Type: REG_DWORD
Radix: Hex
Data: 0
Determines whether the system maintains a standard size or a large size file system cache, and influences how often the system writes changed pages to disk.
Possible values:
0 - Establishes a standard size file-system cache of approximately 8MB. The system allows changed pages to remain in physical memory until the number of available pages drops to approximately 1,000.
1 - Establishes a large system cache working set that can expand to physical memory, minus 4 MB, if needed. The system allows changed pages to remain in physical memory until the number of available pages drops to approximately 250.
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Value: PoolUsageMaximum
Type: REG_DWORD
Radix: Hex
Data: 3C
Determines when the Memory Manager starts trimming the PagedPool area of kernel memory, to free up space for additional resources that may need space in the kernel's PagedPool memory area. The default for this trimming process is 80 percent.
Setting the value at 3C (60) informs the Memory Manager to start the trimming process at 60 percent of PagedPoolMax rather than the default setting of 80 percent. If a threshold of 60 percent is not enough to handle spikes in activity, reduce this setting to 50 percent, or even lower.
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Value: PagedPoolSize
Type: REG_DWORD
Radix: Hex
Data: 0
Determines the size of the kernel's PagedPool memory area that is created during the boot process. Setting PagedPoolSize to 0 allows the Memory Manager to determine the appropriate PagedPool memory size during the boot process.
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Value: SystemPages
Type: REG_DWORD
Radix: Hex
Data: FFFFFFFF
Defines the number of system page table entries that are reserved for mapping I/O buffers and other information into the system address space. Each system page table entry maps one page.
Possible values:
0x0 - The system calculates an optimal number of page table entries based on the platform type and the amount of memory available to the system. The system adjusts this value if the amount of memory changes.
0x1-0xFFFFFFFE - Specifies the number of reserved page table entries. This value takes precedence over the system's calculated value, and it prevents the system from adjusting the value.
0xFFFFFFFF - Maximize system pages. The system creates the largest number of page table entries possible within physical memory. The system monitors and adjusts this value dynamically when the configuration changes.
Approximate values
FFFFFFFF = tells OS to set the maximum number of PTEs allowed
24FFF = 150,000 PTEs
BFFF = 50,000 PTEs
7FFF = 32,000 PTEs
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Otherwise, running perfmon against the machine in question until the machine starts exhibiting symptoms is the only way to see what, if anything, is using large amounts of memory, or if you have an application that is "leaking".