Paged Pool Limit on Windows 2003

[vikcy]

Hi,

i want to know the page pool / Non paged Pool limit in my program
to monitor the System Health.Is there any User mode API/IOCTL using
that i can get the size of Paged Pool and Non Paged Pool in Windows
Kernal?

Actually we have a tool that loads the system resouces like
HDD,RAM, CPU etc.and we do a lot of I/O operations.After running the
tool for some times i get a error "Insufficient resouces to completed
the request".(error code is 1450 returned by GEtLastError()) and Win
API like CreateFile() / OpenMapFile() starts failing.
This happens only on some really fast servers ( more than 4 CPU and
4GB RAM).
i have reproducted the error using a freeware by injecting the paged
mem leak.

Now i want to constantly keep an eye on the size of Page Pool Size /
Non Paged Size.
I dont' want to write a driver to get this info :(,
If somebody can help me in getting the info using User Mode APIs, it
will be very helpful.

Thanks in advance.

[boris]

Hi,

You could use POOLMON.EXE:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177415

- this article mentions editing Registry or usin GFlags, but that's only
required in case of older OSes (NT4, Win2000). In Win2003 just launch
POOLMON.EXE in CMD window.

Boris

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[boris]

For interactive monitoring see my other post: POOLMON.EXE.
But (at least some of) this info is also available via Windows performance
monitor - these counters can also be retrieved programmatically (for
example, via Performance Data Helper api:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373083(VS.85).aspx).

Boris

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