Re: [IMail Forum]bsod

[Patrick Mathews]

bsod's come in flavors. don't have it in front of me, search by the (i think) no no no   find article on m$ kb, if i have time 2morrow i'll look. hardware bsod's are recognizable by a number ending in 021e in the last string before a dev driver name i think...    mark minasi has the best blue screen article, does anyone know his site? when you're done with his articles you'll know blue screens good. they're better than m$.    these guys on this list are probably right about linksys, because i couldn't get a linksys card to work with old m$ mail neither, the smtp box used to lock up like crazy. i ran it on a pair of 286's while at allied signal for a plant closing, got it to sort of work using a ne2000 driver. that gig was a real funeral. learned all that can hose mail from non-compliance and pigheaded cluelessness.   use nt40 perfmon if you think that the box is viable hardwarily but merely leaking somewhere. set perfmon to monitor your nonpaged pool, it's a counter under memory. if you see a leak there, then start going through your processes in perfmon, checking each processes nonpaged mem usage. in my cfg, 20mb nonpaged pool is standard after boot, after stabilization. my boxes still leak, but i cure it by running a HUGE process, forces NT50 to clean memory in anticipation of running the huge process (eg open a 800 mb log file in wordpad) this is so strange: get what i'm saying, it's like saying that my auto is going to run more efficiently if i put 2 tons of brick in the back seat, i don't get it, unless the anticipated load is sending out the garbage collector to clean everything Including (yar yar yar) my polluted non paged pool. this has all of us at the shop scratching our heads ruefully. we came to this desperate fix after being told for a year by the guys in redmond to reboot or rebuild. that gets old. even for old clueless me.   iMon will leak on a cluster running AD and other undocced unsupported non best practice configurations. which is how we do it here. which is why it seems to work... to the users. to me? i don't care. as long as they're happy, i'm happy, i think...         ----- Original Message ----- From: R. Scott Perry To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 09:23 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] System crashing >>After upgrading to the latest four patches (6.06), my NT server has been >>blue-screening several times a day.  The event log, of course, doesn't >>show anything.  Can anyone help? The first thing I would do is reinstall the NT service packs.  Also, it might be worth checking with tech support to see if you can get a full install.  The only time I've seen the blue screens is with certain LAN cards (LinkSys).  Is there any identifyable information on the screen when it happens?  "SMTP.EXE" somewhere on there, for example?                                                             -Scott Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail.  http://www.declude.com Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/