Cache Manager and Memory Manager Become Deadlocked When Both Flush an Extended Attribute Stream (304093)

SYMPTOMS

When an extended attribute stream is flushed, the Cache Manager and the Memory Manager may become deadlocked and may stop responding if they try to flush the stream at the same time. The following event ID may be reported in the system event log:

Event Type:        Error
Event Source:      Srv
Event Category:    None
Event ID:          2020
Date:              6/21/2001
Time:              6:06:19 P.M.
User:              N/A
Computer:          computer_name
Description:       The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty.

Note that a 2020 event ID is a common event ID that could occur with other situations and does not necessarily indicate that you are encountering this issue.

CAUSE

This behavior can occur when you have files that have a large number of extended attributes(An example of a extended attribute is the list of items under the summary tab of a file properties box). The NTFS file system does not assign the extended attribute streams a paging I/O resource and does not mark them as modified-no-write.

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 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date        Time      Size        File name
   --------------------------------------------
   07/12/2001  12:57p       87,824   Hotfix.exe
   07/18/2001  05:13p       18,370   Hotfix.inf
   07/18/2001  05:07p      512,368   Ntfs.sys
   07/18/2001  05:13p    1,233,508   Sp3.cat
   05/30/2001  12:03a        3,584   Spmsg.dll

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 3.

MORE INFORMATION

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:

265173 The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product

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

296861 Use QChain.exe to Install Multiple Hotfixes with One Reboot

For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes