Comments on: Bugtation No.118 https://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2010/03/23/bugtation-no118/ Structural and Behavioral Patterns for Software Diagnostics, Forensics and Prognostics Tue, 05 May 2026 13:51:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Dmitry Vostokov https://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2010/03/23/bugtation-no118/#comment-137926 Dmitry Vostokov Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:09:05 +0000 https://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2010/03/23/bugtation-no118/#comment-137926 I think you can try to use poolmon to get (non)paged pool tag consumption: Poolmon.exe /b and Poolmon.exe /p /b and then look at C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows\triage\triage.ini for pool tag descriptions or if they are not present try to use findstr as shown here: http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/08/25/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-23b/ Although if your server completely hangs you would have to reboot it anyway so why not generate BSOD after users are asked to logon (if they can)? I think you can try to use poolmon to get (non)paged pool tag consumption:

Poolmon.exe /b

and

Poolmon.exe /p /b

and then look at C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows\triage\triage.ini for pool tag descriptions or if they are not present try to use findstr as shown here:

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/08/25/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-23b/

Although if your server completely hangs you would have to reboot it anyway so why not generate BSOD after users are asked to logon (if they can)?

]]> By: Knyghte Hande https://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2010/03/23/bugtation-no118/#comment-137342 Knyghte Hande Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:00:52 +0000 https://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2010/03/23/bugtation-no118/#comment-137342 Hello, Dmitry. I want to know if you can help me on an issue I'm facing with a customer. I have a server that's hanging up because it's filling up the non-paged memory pool. So, I want to create a WinDBG-compatible memory dump but I don't want to create a BSOD on the server. Any toughts? Thanks! Hello, Dmitry.

I want to know if you can help me on an issue I’m facing with a customer. I have a server that’s hanging up because it’s filling up the non-paged memory pool. So, I want to create a WinDBG-compatible memory dump but I don’t want to create a BSOD on the server. Any toughts?

Thanks!

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