Not enough server storage is available to process this command - Part 2
Well its Monday, which means that I have to get back the “Not enough server storage is available to process this command” issue on my Windows 2003 server. As you may recall the problem surfaces when we copy a large file (e.g. 50GB) to this machine.
I remember experiencing this problem before on Windows 2000 systems. For the life of me I could not recall the registry that had to be tweaked to resolve the issue.
I think found the Microsoft article I had in mind 304101. The regaistry key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PagedPoolSize and PoolUsageMaximum. As per the article “Setting PagedPoolSize to 0xFFFFFFFF (-1) allocates the maximum paged pool instead of other resources to the computer.” on the other hand, the aritcle suggest the following for PoolUsageMaximum value:
“Use 60 as your initial value. If your backup does not succeed, use 40 as your value. If that does not work, you must change the behavior of your backup program to reduce the demand of paged pool. If the value works, you may want to increase the value by approximately 25 percent until the backup does not work.”
I am going to try this in a minute but I want to repro the issue with a perfmon log running to see what resource get depleted when the system produces the error message.
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