Article ID: 192792
Article Last Modified on 10/24/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q192792
SYMPTOMS
When you have printers shared on a computer running Windows NT Server, the server stops responding with a high kernel mode CPU usage by SPOOLSS.
Depending on the printing load and the speed of the server, this problem appears only after the computer has been running without interruptions for quite some time, at least a couple of days.
CAUSE
When jobs are queued to the printer, a message is added to the queue of the window opened by the Exchins.exe process. However, the Internet News Service does not process these messages, and the queue grows until it is too large to be handled in a reasonable time. Therefore, the server appears to stops responding.
RESOLUTION
Exchange Server 5.5
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Exchange Server version 5.5. For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
191014 GEN: How to Obtain the Latest Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack
The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:
Component: NNTP
File Name Version
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Exchins.exe 5.5.2383.0
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server versions 5.0 and 5.5. This problem was first corrected in Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 2.
Additional query words: spooler
Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbqfe KB192792
