Virtual memory low warning

[Bryan Bowers]

Howdy,

We recently setup a brand new server with 2GB of memory
with Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. The system generates
an application popup that says the following soon after a
reboot:

****

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 6/12/2004
Time: 8:53:52 AM
User: N/A
Computer: Server
Description:
Application popup: Windows - Virtual Memory Minimum Too
Low : Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is
increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file.
During this process, memory requests for some applications
may be denied. For more information, see Help.

******

The server is set to let Windows automatically manage the
memory. We tried setting the entries manually which did
not resolve the issue.

I even tried removing some of the memory to drop it to
1.5GB but that did not help.

Any assistance is greately appreciated as this is causing
lots of issues.

Thanks,
Bryan

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

When running Exchange on a Win 2003 server with more than 1 GB of RAM, you
need to add the 3 GB switch and /USERVA 3030 paramter to your boot.ini file.
See:

[url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823440[/url]

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Bryan Bowers" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1b72001c45098$7bb977e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...

> Howdy,
>
> We recently setup a brand new server with 2GB of memory
> with Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. The system generates
> an application popup that says the following soon after a
> reboot:
>
> ****
>
> Event Type: Information
> Event Source: Application Popup
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 26
> Date: 6/12/2004
> Time: 8:53:52 AM
> User: N/A
> Computer: Server
> Description:
> Application popup: Windows - Virtual Memory Minimum Too
> Low : Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is
> increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file.
> During this process, memory requests for some applications
> may be denied. For more information, see Help.
>
> ******
>
> The server is set to let Windows automatically manage the
> memory. We tried setting the entries manually which did
> not resolve the issue.
>
> I even tried removing some of the memory to drop it to
> 1.5GB but that did not help.
>
> Any assistance is greately appreciated as this is causing
> lots of issues.
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan

[Bryan Bowers]

Doug,

I am pretty sure I did as I found that article at the time in the
knowledgebase.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Bryan

"Doug Sherman [MVP]" <dsherman@nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:Ok$6ItLUEHA.3944@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

> When running Exchange on a Win 2003 server with more than 1 GB of RAM, you
> need to add the 3 GB switch and /USERVA 3030 paramter to your boot.ini

file.

> See:
>
> [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823440[/url]
>
> Doug Sherman
> MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
>
> "Bryan Bowers" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1b72001c45098$7bb977e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...

> > Howdy,
> >
> > We recently setup a brand new server with 2GB of memory
> > with Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. The system generates
> > an application popup that says the following soon after a
> > reboot:
> >
> > ****
> >
> > Event Type: Information
> > Event Source: Application Popup
> > Event Category: None
> > Event ID: 26
> > Date: 6/12/2004
> > Time: 8:53:52 AM
> > User: N/A
> > Computer: Server
> > Description:
> > Application popup: Windows - Virtual Memory Minimum Too
> > Low : Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is
> > increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file.
> > During this process, memory requests for some applications
> > may be denied. For more information, see Help.
> >
> > ******
> >
> > The server is set to let Windows automatically manage the
> > memory. We tried setting the entries manually which did
> > not resolve the issue.
> >
> > I even tried removing some of the memory to drop it to
> > 1.5GB but that did not help.
> >
> > Any assistance is greately appreciated as this is causing
> > lots of issues.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan

>
>