XADM: Handles Leak During Online Backup

If you monitor the Exchange Server computer by using Performance Monitor, you find that many handles leaked after an online backup.

Several registry keys are opened during an online backup. Some of them come from the Mdbrest.dll file. After the query, the keys are not closed. They remain open for later use for performance reasons. But if the Mdbrest.dll has been relocated because of a memory address collision, those keys are not closed. They are reopened, and the previous handles leak when they are queried again.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Exchange Server 5.5. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5. This problem was first corrected in Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 4.

If you use CDB to attach to the Mad.exe file, the following information is displayed: If you use the Oh.exe file to check the handles that are held by the Mad.exe file, you find that the leaked handles are from the following key: The fix closes all such keys when the .dll file is detached.