Store.exe eating up RAM (around 1GB) - Microsoft Exchange

This is normal behavior. Store.exe takes as much memory as is freely
available. When another process requests memory .. store.exe will release
this memory to the other process.

However if it is slow .. that might be something different.

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"mn4runner" <mn4runner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3D13067E-4F46-483E-A5BF-B0344A7159F4@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> W2k server running Exchange 2000. Store.exe has been consuming up to 1GB
> of
> RAM (out of 2GB total), and appears to be slowing the server down. I
> don't
> recall Store.exe ever consuming that much RAM before and it seems to have
> started this past 7 days or so. If I stop and restart the service or
> reboot
> the server, it goes back down to about 70MB usage and 1.2GB free RAM. It
> can
> run all day like this, then when I come in the next morning the memory
> usage
> spikes again. Is store.exe supposed to consume this much RAM?
>
> I've done searches online and read things ranging from it's normal for
> store.exe to consume as much RAM as possible (on Exchange 5.5 though), to
> problems occurring when trying to run tape backups during the default time
> of
> mailbox store maintenance of 1am-5am. I'm not real sure what to believe
> becuase as I said this seems to have just started this past week. I ran a
> full virus scan on the server and didn't find anything. Microsoft has
> articles on CPU consumption being up to 100% with store.exe, but that was
> with Exchange 5.5 again and our actual CPU usage is normally under 10.
>
> Thanks for any help!
> MN4runner