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From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:joe.poched...@fivesgroup.com] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 10:12 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Event 4999, MESxSearch - OutOfMemoryException, Every Sunday Morning For the past three weeks, I've been having my Information Store crash. The crash happens at roughly the same time every Sunday morning. Event Type: Error Event Source: MSExchange Common Event Category: General Event ID: 4999 Date: 12/20/2009 Time: 3:44:30 AM User: N/A Computer: EX-CAS Description: Watson report about to be sent to dw20.exe for process id: 9192, with parameters: E12, c-RTL-AMD64, 08.01.0393.001, MSExSearch, unknown, unknown, System.OutOfMemoryException, 0, unknown. ErrorReportingEnabled: False It appears to be the Search service apparently causing the issue. The only info I can find on the web that looks similar states that it's likely an iFilter causing the problem, however I haven't installed any extra iFilters or changed anything since for at least a month before this started happening... If it's a iFilter problem, I suppose it could be a "bad" item that's causing the crash, but how would I go about hunting down what item? But then why would it happen every Sunday at about the same time, within an hour? Does the Search service try to re-index non-indexed items on a regular basis? During that period, I'm not aware of any "extra" processes running.... No backups, no database maintenance... Anyone have any other thoughts what might be causing the Search to crash the IS, or can at least have a suggestion how an can go about troubleshooting further? Joe Pochedley Network & Telecommunications Manager Fives North American Combustion, Inc. email: joe.poched...@fivesgroup.com v: +1 216-206-5505 f: +1 216-641-7852