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Earlz
Asked: 2009-12-17 12:34:27 +0800 CST

Extremely high memory usage for mad.exe on Server 2003

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Hello I am running a Server 2003 server. I keep getting error messages saying to "increase page file size" When I looked in task manager for culprits I got mad.exe is using over 1G of virtual memory and over 100M of physical memory.

What could be causing such extreme usages of memory. Also, I've heard there was Norton problems with mad.exe, but we do not have Norton installed on the server.

Also, this server is very low usage. It is only used as a SVN and development database server.

windows-server-2003

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If that's an Exchange server, then mad.exe is a perfectly legitimate process; it shouldn't be using that much memory, sure, but at least it really should be there.

    If that's not an Exchange server, then you definitely have something to worry about...

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  2. Mad.exe is the Exchange System Attendant. Is that service stopped?

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