Microsoft KB Archive/289220

= Performance Monitor Shows a Drop in Available Memory and a Rise in Pool Nonpaged Bytes =

Article ID: 289220

Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1

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This article was previously published under Q289220



SYMPTOMS
When you use Performance Monitor, you may see a drop in Available Memory and a rise in Pool Nonpaged Bytes.



CAUSE
This issue can occur when a put call is in an infinite loop. A memory leak occurs in CPropertyCache::putproperty for the variable pvArray. This memory leak occurs with every use of an ADSTYPE DNwithBin or DNwithString or LargeInteger that has an IDispatch pointer encapsulated in a variant.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Windows 2000.

This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbenv kbprogramming KB289220

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