Memory Leak

I'm having a problem where every few weeks or so, my server gets hosed. All
of the sudden it stops accepting network connections. Usually a reboot does
the trick. We also notice that an error is always written to the event log
whenever this occurs. The errror is

"The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the
pool was empty."

After doing some research on the error, we figured that the problem was a
memory leak. We have been running pool monitor for the last week. The tag
called STRG has climbed all week. It is now at about 120mb. I guess this is
our culprit - however what is STRG?

Pegasus
Mon Mar 24 11:02:29 PDT 2008


"Jeff" <Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AC69E517-5C1D-493D-BE24-03728BC75E00@microsoft.com...
> I'm having a problem where every few weeks or so, my server gets hosed.
> All
> of the sudden it stops accepting network connections. Usually a reboot
> does
> the trick. We also notice that an error is always written to the event log
> whenever this occurs. The errror is
>
> "The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because
> the
> pool was empty."
>
> After doing some research on the error, we figured that the problem was a
> memory leak. We have been running pool monitor for the last week. The tag
> called STRG has climbed all week. It is now at about 120mb. I guess this
> is
> our culprit - however what is STRG?

On my machine, all processes in the Task Manager are listed with
a .exe extension (except System and Idle Process). I suspect it's
the same on your machine, even though you did not report "strg.exe".
If it is an .exe name then you should look on your disk where this
file resides.

Jeff
Mon Mar 24 13:11:01 PDT 2008

STRG is a memory tag that is displayed in the Memory Pool Monitor. It's not
an executable. Someone told me that this was the best too to track down a
memory leak. I think I've tracked it down to this tag - however I have no
idea what the heck it is.

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "Jeff" <Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AC69E517-5C1D-493D-BE24-03728BC75E00@microsoft.com...
> > I'm having a problem where every few weeks or so, my server gets hosed.
> > All
> > of the sudden it stops accepting network connections. Usually a reboot
> > does
> > the trick. We also notice that an error is always written to the event log
> > whenever this occurs. The errror is
> >
> > "The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because
> > the
> > pool was empty."
> >
> > After doing some research on the error, we figured that the problem was a
> > memory leak. We have been running pool monitor for the last week. The tag
> > called STRG has climbed all week. It is now at about 120mb. I guess this
> > is
> > our culprit - however what is STRG?
>
> On my machine, all processes in the Task Manager are listed with
> a .exe extension (except System and Idle Process). I suspect it's
> the same on your machine, even though you did not report "strg.exe".
> If it is an .exe name then you should look on your disk where this
> file resides.
>
>
>