[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan]
If you are experiencing the following symptoms, then check the value for the
HeapDecommitFreeBlockThreshold
registry key found under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
.
We have seen a few cases where customers following
KB 315407
The "HeapDecommitFreeBlockThreshold" Registry Key
may attempt to copy and paste the 0x0004000 value specified from the article into the hexadecimal value data for the REG_DWORD. Regedit does not recognize this format and will convert the data to 41000400 hexadecimal (1090520064 decimal).
This setting is meant to control virtual address space fragmentation by increasing the amount of contiguous free space required before the heap manager frees up any memory. When set to 0, the heap manager will free each 4 KB page as it becomes available. The only other supported value for this key is
0x0004000 hexadecimal (262144 decimal).
This is documented in the following TechNet article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9f4e9cbd-9f8b-4088-8d2a-568f1565e95b.aspx
If you find yourself troubleshooting an extremely high page file, or if you are implementing this for the first time, make sure that the value for the HeapDecommitFreeBlockThreshold is either
0x00040000 hexadecimal (262144 decimal) or 0
. Changing this value requires a server reboot.
Note: To avoid the potential problems with incorrectly setting this value, we recommend leaving the default setting of 0 on Small Business Server.
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