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Netstat and Windows NT4.0 server

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by rob555

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When I logged onto our WinNT 4.0 Server, I had the following error message popup:
"running low on virtual memory"
When that window finally closed, the next message was:
"NETSTAT.EXE - DLL Initialization Failed
Initialization of the dynamic link library
c:\winnt\system32\user32.dll failed.
The process is terminating abnormally."
This server functions as a print and file server.
It is uptodate with patches, etc. How or What would cause this program to run? Thanks.

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

You may need to alter your virtual memory settings for the server. NT specifies a minimum and a maximum for virtual memory and once you reach the maximum it doesn't expand further.

Its been a while since NT4...but I think the settings wereavailable through the control panel under the system applet.

As far as why NETSTAT was running? My guess would be that it had to do with performance counters. NETSTAT was the unlucky program (of many that NT runs in the background) that was running at the time.

I'd also guess that this server may have had a memory upgrade in the recent past, but the virtual memory wasn't changed. The other option is that there is a memory leak on it.

Also one very large print job could blow the memory in one hit - but it'd be a biggy!

Do performance monitoring on it for a while (set it up to log to a log file) and check to see if virtual memory continually increases over time.

Cheers,
Tim.

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