Memory leak in services.exe

[JuanD]

Hi,

My scenario is;
Windows 2003 Server Ent. SP2
Domain Controller and TS
2 Hard Disks (200 GB) non RAID controller
1,5 GB RAM
SQL Server 2000 Standard SP4
MS Exchange Server 2003 SP2
No viruses or spywares.

The server has been working fine from a month ago, it is experimenting a
memory leak in services.exe proccess, the past Sunday I restarted it, then
services.exe begun with 20MB and today it has grow up to 130MB and continue
growing. I've searching for similar issues and more people have the same
problem but nobody get a solution. I've checked with Sysinternals Proccess
Explorer and all seems ok. I get a headache for several days.
Is there any fix or solution to this problem?, Did anybody get resolve this
issue?

Many thanks in advance
JuanD

[mlast@web.de]

Hi JuanD,

have also spent a lot of time on our system regarding this issue. In
our environment the problem was the security log. It looks like that
some software installation sets the maximum log size for security log
to 130MB. Resetting it back to 16MB solved it.

Hope that helps.

Michael


On 6 Jun., 11:40, "JuanD" <xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My scenario is;
> Windows 2003 Server Ent. SP2
> Domain Controller and TS
> 2 Hard Disks (200 GB) non RAID controller
> 1,5 GB RAM
> SQL Server 2000 Standard SP4
> MS Exchange Server 2003 SP2
> No viruses or spywares.
>
> The server has been working fine from a month ago, it is experimenting amemoryleak inservices.exeproccess, the past Sunday I restarted it, thenservices.exebegun with 20MB and today it has grow up to 130MB and continue
> growing. I've searching for similar issues and more people have the same
> problem but nobody get a solution. I've checked with Sysinternals Proccess
> Explorer and all seems ok. I get a headache for several days.
> Is there any fix or solution to this problem?, Did anybody get resolve this
> issue?
>
> Many thanks in advance
> JuanD

[Stuart Sherlock]

I, too, have been experiencing this services.exe leak on two different Windows 2003 server (mine and my client's). Could you tell me the program you are referring to that set the limits? thanks.