Non paged pool limit

[touchstone_81]

how can i find the nonpaged pool limit in win2k using process explorer without connecting to internet?

Internet browing has been disabled on all our servers so cannot set the microsoft symbol server to download symbols in process explorer but need to find out the non paged pool limit desperately so as to set an alert. right now we are restarting the server once the non paged pool hits the limit and cannot accept any more connections.

used poolmon and found out the faulty driver as well but since the fix is not due for another month or so need to know the non paged pool limit.

tried so far? downloaded and extracted the sybols for win2k locally on the server and set the path in process explorer but somehow process explorer dosent seem to recognise them. please help.

[cluberti]

Well, you're in luck. NPP is limited to 256MB without /3GB in the boot.ini, and 128MB with /3GB. Unlike paged pool, this is a fixed limit. This is determined on boot, and you need at least 1.5GB of RAM in the box on boot to hit these limits. Take a look at the askperf blog, as there is a section about this specific issue:

http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2...-resources.aspx

As to process explorer, make sure you have the debugging tools for Windows installed and Process Explorer pointing to the correct dbghelp.dll location and symbol path. If either of these are incorrect, Process Explorer will throw an error on boot and not show you your kernel pools.

[touchstone_81]

Hi thanks for the reply cluberti i did take a look at the link you gave me and it more or less confirmed what i already knew . what i was wondering was is there any way to determine the exact value of kernel pools without connecting to the internet.?

[cluberti]

The only other surefire way is to dump the box, and run a !vm against the .dmp file in a debugger.

[touchstone_81]

Ok great will try that thanks for your help.