Error C0000004 When Running Process-Monitoring Tools

 Last reviewed: August 22, 1995
Article ID: Q122362
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
  • Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 3.5
  • Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.5

SYMPTOMS

When you run process-monitoring tools such as PSTAT, PMON, TLIST, QSLICE, KILL, and PVIEW against a Windows NT computer that contains a large amount of System Process Information, the following message appears: 

   Error C0000004

CAUSE

These utilities currently pass the system a buffer that is too small to contain all the process and thread information that might be present in an extremely large server configuration.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT versions 3.1 and 3.5. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

KBCategory: kbnetwork kberrmsg kbbug3.10 kbbug3.50
KBSubcategory: ntreskit
Additional reference words: prodnt 3.10 3.50

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Last reviewed: August 22, 1995
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