Denial of Service Can Occur When Temporary Files Use Up Paged Pool Memory

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This article was previously published under Q289176

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SYMPTOMS

When there are a large number of files that have the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY attribute, the paged pool memory is used up because the cache manager keeps the files dirty in the cache. This situation can cause a denial of service.

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

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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 2.

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