How can I limit store.exe memory usage

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cdub -> How can I limit store.exe memory usage (11.Jun.2007 4:03:45 PM)
I have an exchange 2k7 box with 8gb of RAM. It has to run 2 VMWare virtual machines and Antigen. The store.exe keeps trying to use 5gb of memory at least. So how can I tell store.exe to use no more than 3.5gb of RAM - a hard cap so to speak?

awitt -> RE: How can I limit store.exe memory usage (27.May2008 12:59:47 PM)
I am also having this same problem, except store.exe is using almost all 8gb of physical memory that we have installed. Does anyone have a fix for this? I have been just restarting the server when memory usage gets out of control, but this is getting rediculous. It's to the point that I can't open certain programs because I get a 'out of memory' error! Please help.

jeka -> RE: How can I limit store.exe memory usage (23.Jun.2008 2:20:59 AM)
Try to restrict cache size http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com/2007/08/restricting-ram-usage-in-exchange-2007.html

ehuber -> RE: How can I limit store.exe memory usage (30.Jun.2008 3:42:30 PM)
We had the same problem. Store.exe was consuming so much phy-mem that our nightly backup would not run. I read the various posts here and elsewhere and then called Microsoft. Basically here is what they had me do. 1st the Exchange box must be SP 2 (O/S) and SP-1 (EX). Secondly they had me create a page file of 16gb on the system drive and one 1.05 x the phy-mem on another drive. Seems 1.05 is the magic number for x64 and Exchange07, They were very adamant about this size. After these steps they had me apply the update rollup #2 for Exchange07 SP-1 KB948016. After more testing they finally had me apply the following hotfix to the O/S. Article ID: 938486 this fixes an issue with the memory trimming on the box. Be sure to do a system state backup prior to this hotfix as it modifies the HAL.dll as well as the NTOSKRNL.EXE. The server has been running for 4 days with these settings and my memory usage has dropped to about 39% of the 16gb. Now the Store process does go to 12GB but never exceeds this threshold and more importantly gives the memory back to other processes. In the early morning the top process is beremote.exe (BackupExec). We have not missed any backups and the BE-SRS is running consistantly. While MS has not closed the case I consider the issue resolved. The tech did say that the CACHE parameter should not be modified in ADSIEDIT. Modifying this parameter will permently limit the system of memory usage. So far I have not noticed any system degregation, nor is the system paging excessively as it was before. Ekh.

awitt -> RE: How can I limit store.exe memory usage (9.Jul.2008 2:56:23 PM)
I am running Exchange 2007 on Server '08, and those instructions don't seem to work on server 08. Does anyone else have any ideas?

ehuber -> RE: How can I limit store.exe memory usage (9.Jul.2008 3:37:11 PM)
Hmm, 2008 O/S. Those articles don't touch 08. What do your page files look like. While I know the HotFix for the memory manager fixed the memory releasing issue. I saw some improvement when I changed the page file locations around. How many mailboxes do you have?

pepinho -> RE: How can I limit store.exe memory usage (2.Nov.2008 2:56:36 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ehuber We had the same problem. Store.exe was consuming so much phy-mem that our nightly backup would not run. I read the various posts here and elsewhere and then called Microsoft. Basically here is what they had me do. 1st the Exchange box must be SP 2 (O/S) and SP-1 (EX). Secondly they had me create a page file of 16gb on the system drive and one 1.05 x the phy-mem on another drive. Seems 1.05 is the magic number for x64 and Exchange07, They were very adamant about this size. After these steps they had me apply the update rollup #2 for Exchange07 SP-1 KB948016. After more testing they finally had me apply the following hotfix to the O/S. Article ID: 938486 this fixes an issue with the memory trimming on the box. Be sure to do a system state backup prior to this hotfix as it modifies the HAL.dll as well as the NTOSKRNL.EXE. The server has been running for 4 days with these settings and my memory usage has dropped to about 39% of the 16gb. Very interesting... Ehuber, could you update us regarding the stability of the hotfix? Are you happy with it?

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