Article ID: 173458
Article Last Modified on 4/28/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q173458
SYMPTOMS
The Microsoft Exchange Message Transfer Agent (MTA) may shut down and the following event may be recorded in the Windows NT Server Event Viewer Application log:
CAUSE
The server is running low on disk space and/or virtual memory.
RESOLUTION
Free up hard disk space by removing or deleting unneeded files. You should have at least 10MB of free space or the MTA will shut down automatically. You should also increase the size of the Windows NT Pagefile.
Additional query words: perfmon virtual bytes low
Keywords: KB173458