Registry Corruption ???

[Alberto Brivio]

Dear All,

I'm writing here because I experiencing the same trouble in a couple of days
with 3 machines .

Starting on Monday, rebooting win2000 machines , system cannot get up:

1 first case, file systemced seems to be corrupted, so a registry restore
is suggested, then original registry loaded and compacted
and restored.............................every thing has gone ok

2, 3 second and third, no particular indicator has been shown , but the
above restore procedure has gone ok !!!!!


What I wonder is :


What is written above has happened 3 times and I'm afraid it happens again,
so what could be caused of?

Malicious code, hotfix, etc...

Problem, seems to be registry's size, so what's the size limit ?

And what is method in order to change / control that size ?


Regards

Alberto Brivio

 

[John John]

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Dear All,

I'm writing here because I experiencing the same trouble in a couple of days
with 3 machines .

Starting on Monday, rebooting win2000 machines , system cannot get up:

1 first case, file systemced seems to be corrupted, so a registry restore
is suggested, then original registry loaded and compacted
and restored.............................every thing has gone ok

2, 3 second and third, no particular indicator has been shown , but the
above restore procedure has gone ok !!!!!


What I wonder is :


What is written above has happened 3 times and I'm afraid it happens again,
so what could be caused of?

Try removing orphaned shares/printers at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Share

Follow the instructions here to compact and further reduce the size of
the System Hive: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=269075

Problem, seems to be registry's size, so what's the size limit ?

That's a bit misleading, the problem is not really the size of the
registry as a whole but rather that when Windows is booting it cannot
load more that 16MB of registry System hive. On Windows 2000 the
maximum size of the registry itself is set by default at 25% of Paged
Pool Size, or about 90 to 100 MB. That default size can be increased up
to 80% of Paged Pool Size, or about 300MB, but that is not recommended.

And what is method in order to change / control that size ?

It can be changed in the System Properties at the same place where you
set the Paging File size, but once again, that is not the cause of the
systemced hive size problem and changing the Registry Size will not cure
the problem. The changes you make there are not the same as the Paged
Pool size discussed earlier. You will have to monitor the registry to
see what writes to the System Hive causing it to grow to an ungainly size.

John