I ran a BPA report yesterday after manually updating to the latest version of the tool to see what may be different. It returned a critical issue for one of my Exchange cluster nodes that reads "Non-[aged pool memory is over the critical threshold of 110 MB. System instability may occur. Current value: 115 MB". I'm a bit confused on the help file that instructs you how to solve this problem. It says to monitor the Memory | Pool Nonpaged Bytes perfmon counter to ensure that it is not climbing over the above listed threshold for the sytem. I'm having some problems using this counter because I don't know what scale to use. I.E. my vertical scale is set to 100 on the graph and to 0.0000100 on the data scale for the Memory | Pool Nonpaged Bytes counter object. However, that counter is constatly pegged out way over a hundred. How are you suppose to measure the Memory | Pool Nonpaged Bytes perfmon counter?
Non-paged pool (NPP) memory is typically used by drivers and filters. If ExBPA is warning about out-of-date software, then make sure that you upgrade as recommended. If you have any special AV or backup software on the machine also ensure that you're using the latest version available as these components tend to consume a lot of NPP. -- Paul Bowden Program Manager Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/analyzers This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "SilverICE" wrote in message news:BD5AE0FF-F9EA-4170-A288-F25CA0E92701@microsoft.com... >I ran a BPA report yesterday after manually updating to the latest version >of > the tool to see what may be different. It returned a critical issue for > one > of my Exchange cluster nodes that reads "Non-[aged pool memory is over the > critical threshold of 110 MB. System instability may occur. Current > value: > 115 MB". I'm a bit confused on the help file that instructs you how to > solve > this problem. > > It says to monitor the Memory | Pool Nonpaged Bytes perfmon counter to > ensure that it is not climbing over the above listed threshold for the > sytem. > I'm having some problems using this counter because I don't know what > scale > to use. I.E. my vertical scale is set to 100 on the graph and to > 0.0000100 > on the data scale for the Memory | Pool Nonpaged Bytes counter object. > However, that counter is constatly pegged out way over a hundred. > > How are you suppose to measure the Memory | Pool Nonpaged Bytes perfmon > counter? >
