The Server was unable to find a free connection x times in the last y seconds

[Alan Hussey]

I am intermittently recieving the above subject event. This is hanging the Server and forcing a power on/off. The server can run OK for days and then some days the problem can occur 8-10 times. I have increased the MaxFreeConnections to 8, set the MaxWorkItems to 512 and turned of Autodisconnect. However the problem is still there. Any suggestions????

[mmawawa]

Hello,

I just wanted to know if you found a solution to this problem ?

We have several servers that are experiencing the same problem; but looking back, you can find another event : "The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the pool was empty."

If anyone found a solution to this problem, it will be very welcome.

Moïse Mawawa
(email address removed)

[Tuttle]

The nonpaged pool error generally indicates a memory leak in something. Unfortunately, they're not the easiest things in the world to track down.

It's been ages since I had to do this, but I used the Driver Verifier tool from Microsoft to do it -- you need to figure out which driver or process is allocating nonpaged pool memory but never freeing it.

I'm afraid I don't know if there was anything similar for NT 4, and even if there was I'm not sure how much good it would do you -- you're unlikely to find the developer of the problem component still working on NT4-compatible versions.