Phony threshold warnings (event id 2013)

[Tom Kustner]

We have a number of Windows 2000 Server boxes (Compaq DL280 machines)
that are generating "phony" threshold limits. The event id is 2013,
indicating that we have crossed the 90% threshold. However, the
evidence clearly shows this to be *not* the case. We have tried
defragging and limit the pagefile size, but this does no good.

These are pretty vanilla systems with McAfee AntiVirus 8.0 on them.
One has SQL Server 2000, another has ARCserve 9.x, and so on. All are
fully patched and otherwise have been stable. However, getting these
alerts, which mostly come at night, is becoming bothersome. Some
occur close to, but not exactly at the same time, as the backups.

Any ideas?

TK

 

[Dave Patrick]

This link may help.

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/260752.htm

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[Tom Kustner]

Thanks, but we don't use Veritas (though we are using a version of
ARCserve that is two version old, admittedly.

We are only seeing this sporadically on our older Win2000 systems on
Compaq boxes. It just has me scratching my head...

 

[Dave Patrick]

You mentioned this happens around the time of the backups which does sound
suspicious. Maybe the backup process is caching to disk prior to writing the
tape.

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