XCON: Exchange Server MTA Event ID 9280 (243402)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5
This article was previously published under Q243402

SUMMARY

Exchange Server bridgeheads configured with a large number of site connectors may experience occurrences of the following Event ID, and message backlogs are likely to result:

Event ID 9280
MSExchangeMTA
Warning
A resource limit has been reached when attempting to open an association. The locality table is full.

The following Event ID is likely to be seen in conjunction with the occurrences of Event ID 9280:

Event ID 57
MSExchangeMTA
Warning
The limit on the number of associations allowed to and from entity (X.500 Distinguished Name referring to a remote server) has been reached. The limit is 9.

MORE INFORMATION

Event ID 9280 indicates that the message transfer agent (MTA) has reached its limit for concurrent LAN-based MTA connections. Currently, this limit is approximately 240 concurrent associations for each MTA.

Note that this limit relates only to bridgeheads which serve a large number of remote procedure call (RPC)-based connectors, such as site connector. X.400 connections do not factor into this total concurrent association count for the 240 limitation. For additional information about Event ID 57 from the Exchange Server MTA, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194589 XCON: Event ID 57 from the Exchange Message Transfer Agent

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:4/28/2005
Keywords:kbinfo KB243402
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