Microsoft KB Archive/282430

= Memory Leak Causes SMTP Pickup Folder Performance to Deteriorate =

Article ID: 282430

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2

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This article was previously published under Q282430



SYMPTOMS
When you use a Windows 2000 Server-based computer, the server may display symptoms of a memory leak, such as slow performance, an &quot;out of memory&quot; error messages, or the server may stop responding (hang).



CAUSE
This problem can occur if an e-mail system that uses the Pickup folder to transfer e-mail messages to the Windows 2000 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service exposes a memory leak.



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

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STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

Additional query words: kbMgmtAdmin

Keywords: kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbug kbenv kbmemory kbsysadmin kbwin2000sp3fix KB282430

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