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Exchange 2000 Eating up all my RAM

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I have a new Exchange 2000 server that I have transferred all my old 5.5 mailboxes to. I have the server up and running with the IMS and all. The old 5.5 server is now out of the picture. The server works fine for about 24 hours or so then store.exe (sometime at night) starts leaking out memory and by morning it'll have 800-900mb in use and the server will be extremely slow.

The server is a Dell P/E with 2 733's and 1gb of RAM. Win2k SP2 and EXG2k SP1 have been applied. What else should I look for?

Ryan
 
By Design, Exchange's Information Store will take up all of the available Physical memory which leaves mostly the virtual memory (pagefile.sys) to other applications. I am the administrator of a 250 member Windows 2000/Exchange 2000 domain and our e-mail server is a dual P3-1GHz DL-380 with 1 gig of RAM and our information store is about 800 megs also. If we would add another 512mb RAM the store would most likely grow another 500 megs or so. I don't know why Microsoft hasn't noted this in their knowledge base and stated that it is normal.

Hope this helps!
 
I realize that it uses the RAM for caching and all, but it runs considerably slower in the mornings when all the RAM is filled up. The only other App/ Services the server is running is DNS and that's for secondary usage. Should I considering taking DNS off or do you think it matters?

 
Is the server a domain controller? How does the e-mail respond from the server? It is an e-mail server, therefore all of the resources should give priority to e-mail. If e-mail runs slow, then you have a problem. I think there is a way to limit a service to a specific amount of memory, but I don't know how off hand. I do notice on our server that everything (IE, logging in, other regular applications ver I administer runs sluggish) but e-mail runs fine.

You don't have to turn off DNS either since DNS has low overhead.

Hope this helps.
 
Yes the machine is a DC. Email responds well from the server initially but Outlook slows to a crawl after about 24 hours. This machine supports about 40 users.
 
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