System could not allocate from paged pool because the pool was emty

[newDBA]

Hi !
I am getting this error 2 times a week .
monitoring paged pool and handles etc.. only showed that
services.exe and cqmghost taking anourmous amout of handles error starting when handles amount around
5 000 000 - 6 000 000

Windows 2000 sp4 , SQl 2000 sp3
Also system has installation of the program to which users connect through mapped on their computers network drivers

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[antioed]

That sounds like a Compaq server...you should check to see if there are updates for the server from HP first, this may be a known issue.

Does it happen during backups? services.exe is a generic process tree, check this application out...I would use something like this to try and figure out which sub-process of services is causing the cpu to cycle...maybe you'll get insight as to where the problem is since it only happens happens at certain times. Good luck!

[newDBA]

thank you for the reply.
The process which takes handles most is cqmghost .exe

[newDBA]

This is just great: I disabled cqmghost and couple of other services one by one.
I was expecting problem goes away. What happened now
services.exe takes 9 000 000 handles and paged pool for 4 days grew up to 91 mb ( continue growing)

I found this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=815493#appliesto

But it doesn't say much.

Does anyone was experincing that problem?