Applies to

Problem

In some special situations, you may suspect that an application:

• is taking too much memory
• is gradually leaking memory, or
• you may wish to limit the use of available system pool memory at the user level.

Causes and Workarounds

Two registry keys can be added (of type REG_DWORD). These keys do not exist in a default Windows 2000 installation.

1. HKLM>system>currentcontrolset>services>lanmanserver>parameters>maxnonpagedmemoryusage
2. HKLM>system>currentcontrolset>services>lanmanserver>parameters>maxpagedmemoryusage

This limit only applies to the system’s paged pool and non-paged pool of memory.

Technical Contact(s)

Landon Guretzki

Date Submitted

21 Sep 2000