error when trying to use Windows 7 as a file server

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greg
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error when trying to use Windows 7 as a file server

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I had this issue with a Win 7 computer we were using to share external drives to back up some servers:

The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations.

“Apparently you need to tell Windows that you want to use the machine as a file server and that it should allocate resources accordingly. Set the following registry key to ‘1′: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\LargeSystemCache

and set the following registry key to ‘3′: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size
After making these changes and restarting, I haven’t seen this issue arise again

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Greg Marlett
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Pelstar Computer Systems
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