getspinlock error, possibly related to database lockup

  • Sporadically, our MS SQL Server 2000 database server hangs.  Only error message we found is the following:

    Operation

    Debug print: "2005-01-20 12:10:49.74 getspinlock pre-Sleep(): spid 64, 10000 yields on lock type MEM_MGR (adr 0xa63af8)\n"

    Process

    sqlservr.exe:3064:1352

    Causality ID: {FC336258-60C6-4395-8129-767CFADF7402}

    Module

    sqlservr.exe

    When the database hangs, no connections of any type can be made.  SQL Server needs to be stopped and restarted in order to use it again. 

    A search of Microsoft, yielded bug #17149 with similar "hang" symptoms but it is related to 6.5 and was fixed.

    Any ideas?

  • Are you running perfmons against the machine? If not add some counters for memory, both OS and SQL related, see if this gives you any ideas.



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  • Yes.  No excessive use of memory, cpu, etc.  All we know for sure is that some time within a couple of hours of running transaction log backups, sql server freezes and can only be stopped and re-started using Services.

  • is SQL using all of the available free memory on the system (or that you have allocated to it)?



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