Article ID: 304093
Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2
This article was previously published under Q304093
SYMPTOMS
When an extended attribute stream is flushed, the Cache Manager and the Memory Manager may become deadlocked and may stop responding if they try to flush the stream at the same time. The following event ID may be reported in the system event log:
Note that a 2020 event ID is a common event ID that could occur with other situations and does not necessarily indicate that you are encountering this issue.
CAUSE
This behavior can occur when you have files that have a large number of extended attributes(An example of a extended attribute is the list of items under the summary tab of a file properties box). The NTFS file system does not assign the extended attribute streams a paging I/O resource and does not mark them as modified-no-write.
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
The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:
Date Time Size File name -------------------------------------------- 07/12/2001 12:57p 87,824 Hotfix.exe 07/18/2001 05:13p 18,370 Hotfix.inf 07/18/2001 05:07p 512,368 Ntfs.sys 07/18/2001 05:13p 1,233,508 Sp3.cat 05/30/2001 12:03a 3,584 Spmsg.dll
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.
MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
265173 The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product
For additional information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only one reboot, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
296861 Use QChain.exe to Install Multiple Hotfixes with One Reboot
For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes
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