FIX: Memory Leak in Remote Procedure Call Server Service (RPCSS)

The Svchost.exe that hosts Remote Procedure Call Server Service (RPCSS) may leak memory. This behavior appears in Performance Monitor (PerfMon) as an increase in the private bytes counter.

A COM call, GetProcessInfo, does not free an array that was allocated from the heap.

Service Pack Information

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Hotfix Information

To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft COM+ Rollup Hotfix 22. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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 Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4.

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: For additional information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only one restart, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: