More Performance Degradation Than Expected When You Perform a Debug Operation

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This article was previously published under Q312614

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SYMPTOMS

When you perform a debug operation on a domain controller, you may experience a greater degree of performance degradation than you expect.

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CAUSE

This behavior occurs because of the numerous "page heap created" and "page heap destroyed" messages that are generated during the debug operation.

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The following hotfix turns off the creation of unnecessary output messages. As a result, the rate of page heap creation and page heap deletion is significantly increased.

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 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260910/EN-US/ ) How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English-language version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date         Time   Version        Size     File name
   -----------------------------------------------------
   13-Nov-2001  16:58  5.0.2195.4637  476,432  Ntdll.dll

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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.

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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 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/265173/EN-US/ ) 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 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296861/EN-US/ ) Use QChain.exe to Install Multiple Hotfixes with One Reboot

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