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From: Clive SRT on 1 Dec 2006 05:07
We had an SMTP service crash yesterday and I have been checking the server
for any logfiles around the time of the crash. I have come across some files
entitled RAMDUMP0.log , RAMDUMP1.log etc. These are in the Program
Files\Exchsrvr/MTADATA folder. They are all 257k in size but when opened in
notepad there is no content.

Is there a way to interrogate these files, or are they just red herrings to
the problem?

TY, Clive.
From: John Fullbright [MVP] on 1 Dec 2006 14:23
It's a memory dump of a user mode process, the MTA. You would need a
debugger and the symbol files to even begin to make sense of it. Typically
this is something you would send to MS as part of a troubleshooting process.

John

"Clive SRT" <CliveSRT(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:81FB85F4-E327-46B7-BD2F-272D26216806(a)microsoft.com...
> We had an SMTP service crash yesterday and I have been checking the server
> for any logfiles around the time of the crash. I have come across some
> files
> entitled RAMDUMP0.log , RAMDUMP1.log etc. These are in the Program
> Files\Exchsrvr/MTADATA folder. They are all 257k in size but when opened
> in
> notepad there is no content.
>
> Is there a way to interrogate these files, or are they just red herrings
> to
> the problem?
>
> TY, Clive.


From: Clive SRT on 5 Dec 2006 04:12
Hi John.

Thanks for the reply. I'd best not touch those files then in that case.
Thanks for the advice.

-Clive-

"John Fullbright [MVP]" wrote:

> It's a memory dump of a user mode process, the MTA. You would need a
> debugger and the symbol files to even begin to make sense of it. Typically
> this is something you would send to MS as part of a troubleshooting process.
>
> John
>
> "Clive SRT" <CliveSRT(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:81FB85F4-E327-46B7-BD2F-272D26216806(a)microsoft.com...
> > We had an SMTP service crash yesterday and I have been checking the server
> > for any logfiles around the time of the crash. I have come across some
> > files
> > entitled RAMDUMP0.log , RAMDUMP1.log etc. These are in the Program
> > Files\Exchsrvr/MTADATA folder. They are all 257k in size but when opened
> > in
> > notepad there is no content.
> >
> > Is there a way to interrogate these files, or are they just red herrings
> > to
> > the problem?
> >
> > TY, Clive.
>
>
>
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