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E2K SP3 still requires the /3GB switch ?
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| Want To Know 2002-08-08, 11:23 am |
| My E2K server has 1GB RAM at the moment.
I'm going to upgrade the E2K SP2 to SP3 and at the same time upgrade the RAM
from 1GB to 2GB.
With the SP3, do I still have to put the /3GB switch in the boot.ini ?
I recall reading a post from here that with SP3, the /3GB switch is
redundant. Is it true ?
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| Evan Dodds 2002-08-08, 6:23 pm |
| If you're running W2k Advanced Server, then yes -- be sure you're running
with /3GB switch in BOOT.INI. If it's W2k Server, then putting in the /3GB
switch will only reduce the kernel-mode virtual memory, with no gain in
user-mode virtual memory. Take a look at:
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...b;en-us;Q266096
There are a bunch of virtual memory changes in E2k SP3 to reduce virtual
memory fragmentation, but you'll definitely still want to set the /3GB
switch on W2k Advanced Servers.
"Want To Know" <wt_know@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e1P7$dvPCHA.1716@tkmsftngp12...
> My E2K server has 1GB RAM at the moment.
> I'm going to upgrade the E2K SP2 to SP3 and at the same time upgrade the
RAM
> from 1GB to 2GB.
>
> With the SP3, do I still have to put the /3GB switch in the boot.ini ?
>
> I recall reading a post from here that with SP3, the /3GB switch is
> redundant. Is it true ?
>
>
>
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| Rich Matheisen [MVP] 2002-08-08, 6:23 pm |
| "Want To Know" <wt_know@hotmail.com> wrote:
>My E2K server has 1GB RAM at the moment.
>I'm going to upgrade the E2K SP2 to SP3 and at the same time upgrade the RAM
>from 1GB to 2GB.
>
>With the SP3, do I still have to put the /3GB switch in the boot.ini ?
>
>I recall reading a post from here that with SP3, the /3GB switch is
>redundant. Is it true ?
I don't know about the SP3 thing, but the /3GB switch should only be
used if you're running W2K Advanced Server. Do NOT use it if you're
only running W2K Server.
--
Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
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| BR260354 2002-10-30, 2:23 pm |
| We have an Exchange 2000 Cluster with, of course, Win2kAdv Server. This
morning we put the /3GB switch in the boot.ini file and we had some issues.
Services in cluster admin kept going offline and online and then the
information store dismounted. We couldn't mount it. We failed over to the
other node (which also had the /3GB switch) and it ran for a little but
finally died the same way as node 1. So to get things back, we just took
the switch off. Sure we get fragmentation errors in the event log but it's
working for now. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Richard
"Rich Matheisen [MVP]" <richnews@rmcons.com.NOSPAM.COM> wrote in message
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> "Want To Know" <wt_know@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >My E2K server has 1GB RAM at the moment.
> >I'm going to upgrade the E2K SP2 to SP3 and at the same time upgrade the
RAM
> >from 1GB to 2GB.
> >
> >With the SP3, do I still have to put the /3GB switch in the boot.ini ?
> >
> >I recall reading a post from here that with SP3, the /3GB switch is
> >redundant. Is it true ?
>
> I don't know about the SP3 thing, but the /3GB switch should only be
> used if you're running W2K Advanced Server. Do NOT use it if you're
> only running W2K Server.
>
> --
> Rich Matheisen
> MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
> MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
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| Evan Dodds 2002-10-30, 7:23 pm |
| What errors did you get in the app log, sys log, or cluster log while the
store was acting up?
"BR260354" <br260354@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:#Y8XQ7EgCHA.1652@tkmsftngp11...
> We have an Exchange 2000 Cluster with, of course, Win2kAdv Server. This
> morning we put the /3GB switch in the boot.ini file and we had some
issues.
> Services in cluster admin kept going offline and online and then the
> information store dismounted. We couldn't mount it. We failed over to
the
> other node (which also had the /3GB switch) and it ran for a little but
> finally died the same way as node 1. So to get things back, we just took
> the switch off. Sure we get fragmentation errors in the event log but
it's
> working for now. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
> "Rich Matheisen [MVP]" <richnews@rmcons.com.NOSPAM.COM> wrote in message
> newsa26luouida7f34apc9ibep44
bfl9rr5vf@4ax.com...
> > "Want To Know" <wt_know@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >My E2K server has 1GB RAM at the moment.
> > >I'm going to upgrade the E2K SP2 to SP3 and at the same time upgrade
the
> RAM
> > >from 1GB to 2GB.
> > >
> > >With the SP3, do I still have to put the /3GB switch in the boot.ini ?
> > >
> > >I recall reading a post from here that with SP3, the /3GB switch is
> > >redundant. Is it true ?
> >
> > I don't know about the SP3 thing, but the /3GB switch should only be
> > used if you're running W2K Advanced Server. Do NOT use it if you're
> > only running W2K Server.
> >
> > --
> > Rich Matheisen
> > MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
> > MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
>
>
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| BR260354 2002-10-30, 10:23 pm |
| Well, you asked. I apologize ahead of time for the size of this post:
For starters I got 1003 Event ids - IISInfoCtrs source.
Unable to query the IIS Info service performance data. The error code
returned by the service is data DWORD 0.
Event ID 2002
The open procedure for service "RemoteAccess" in DLL
"C:\WINNT\System32\rasctrs.dll" has taken longer than the established wait
time to complete. There may be a problem with this extensible counter or
the service it is collecting data from or the system may have been very
busy when this call was attempted.
After the Exchange services started, I get many of these:
Event 1003
Unable to query the W3SVC (HTTP) service performance data. The error code
returned by the service is data DWORD 0.
Then I start getting this:
Event 10006 - Source Microsoft Search
An error occurred during the online operation for instance <Exchange MS
Search Instance - (WNBEXCL01)>: 80004005 - Unspecified error
Once I got this "Information" type Event 9997, source MSExchangeMTA:
The description for Event ID ( 9997 ) in Source ( MSExchangeMTA ) cannot be
found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or
message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following
information is part of the event: File:
'y:\mta\src\emsmta\sysglue\sbm
ifwnt.c', line: 1720, MTAtid: 3, NTtid: 2760,
GetDiskFreeSpace() Returned Error: 21(0x00000015).
I notice my MTA when offline in the cluster.
A few Event 482 Source ESE:
Information Store (2564) An attempt to write to the file
"E:\EXCHSRVR\mdbdata\E00.log" at offset 3588608 (0x000000000036c200) for 512
(0x00000200) bytes failed with system error 21 (0x00000015): "The device is
not ready. ". The write operation will fail with error -1022 (0xfffffc02).
If this error persists then the file may be damaged and may need to be
restored from a previous backup.
Event 414 source ESE
Information Store (2564) 29144398-f38a-433a-92d1-8a9fd9768909: Unable to
write to section 0 while flushing logfile E:\EXCHSRVR\mdbdata\E00.log.
Error -1022 (0xfffffc02).
Event 9558 Sourse MSExchangeIS
An error occurred while writing to the database log file of storage group
"First Storage Group". Attempting to unmount all databases in this storage
group.
Event 471 Source ESE:
Information Store (2564) Unable to rollback operation #45982 on database
E:\EXCHSRVR\mdbdata\priv1.edb. Error: -510. All future database updates will
be rejected.
Event 492 Source ESE:
Information Store (2564) The logfile sequence in "E:\EXCHSRVR\mdbdata\" has
been halted due to a fatal error. No further updates are possible for the
databases that use this logfile sequence. Please correct the problem and
restart or restore from backup.
A few Event 481 Sourse ESE:
Information Store (2564) An attempt to read from the file
"E:\EXCHSRVR\mdbdata\priv1.edb" at offset 57923342336 (0x0000000d7c801000)
for 8192 (0x00002000) bytes failed with system error 21 (0x00000015): "The
device is not ready. ". The read operation will fail with error -1022
(0xfffffc02). If this error persists then the file may be damaged and may
need to be restored from a previous backup.
Even 1159 Source MSExchangeIS
Database error Disk IO error occurred in function
JTAB_BASE::EcRetrieveColumns while accessing the database "First Storage
Group\Mailbox Store (WNBEXCL01)".
and
Database error 0xfffffbbe occurred in function
JTAB_BASE::EcRetrieveColumnByP
tagId while accessing the database "First
Storage Group\Mailbox Store (WNBEXCL01)".
and
Database error Disk IO error occurred in function
JTAB_BASE::EcRetrieveColumns while accessing the database "First Storage
Group\Mailbox Store (WNBEXCL01)".
and
Database error Disk IO error occurred in function
JTAB_BASE::EcRetrieveColumnByP
tagId while accessing the database "First
Storage Group\Mailbox Store (WNBEXCL01)".
and few more like that...
Event 1115 Source MSExchangeIS Mailbox:
Error 0xfffffbbe returned from closing database table, called from function
JTAB_BASE::EcCloseTable on table 2-26CE84.
I get a whole bunch of 1159, 482 and 481 errors. A minute later I get a
whole bunch of 1115 errors. Finally I get a message saying the Information
Store stopped. It seems to try to startup again and then a series of event
5007 source MSExchangeSA errors.
Once we took the /3GB off...we see none of these errors.
Thanks for your time...
Richard
"Evan Dodds" <evanmsft@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eCG8mXHgCHA.1420@tkmsftngp10...
> What errors did you get in the app log, sys log, or cluster log while the
> store was acting up?
>
> "BR260354" <br260354@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:#Y8XQ7EgCHA.1652@tkmsftngp11...
> > We have an Exchange 2000 Cluster with, of course, Win2kAdv Server. This
> > morning we put the /3GB switch in the boot.ini file and we had some
> issues.
> > Services in cluster admin kept going offline and online and then the
> > information store dismounted. We couldn't mount it. We failed over to
> the
> > other node (which also had the /3GB switch) and it ran for a little but
> > finally died the same way as node 1. So to get things back, we just
took
> > the switch off. Sure we get fragmentation errors in the event log but
> it's
> > working for now. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
> >
> > "Rich Matheisen [MVP]" <richnews@rmcons.com.NOSPAM.COM> wrote in message
> > newsa26luouida7f34apc9ibep44
bfl9rr5vf@4ax.com...
> > > "Want To Know" <wt_know@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >My E2K server has 1GB RAM at the moment.
> > > >I'm going to upgrade the E2K SP2 to SP3 and at the same time upgrade
> the
> > RAM
> > > >from 1GB to 2GB.
> > > >
> > > >With the SP3, do I still have to put the /3GB switch in the boot.ini
? [colo
r=darkred]
> > > >
> > > >I recall reading a post from here that with SP3, the /3GB switch is
> > > >redundant. Is it true ?
> > >
> > > I don't know about the SP3 thing, but the /3GB switch should only be
> > > used if you're running W2K Advanced Server. Do NOT use it if you're
> > > only running W2K Server.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rich Matheisen
> > > MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
> > > MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
> >
> >
>
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