> What's your virtual memory set at?  Do you have plenty of free disk
> space if you need to tune it up?  I'm not totally familiar with how
> LISTSERV indexes archives but if it's similar to most other Windows
> indexing services (search engines, Fast Find, etc.) it'll eat up a lot
> of VM.
>
> (Also, if this is the case then it's very advisable to keep your disk
> *clean*, i.e. regularly clear out temp files, run scandisk/chkdsk, and
> keep the drive defragged.  Windows leaves a lot of 'crumbs' lying around
> where it's been.)

real memory is 1 GB (virtual memory is 2 GB). there is about 5 GB diskspace
left on the system disk and 50 GB on the archive-disk.
it takes about 5 minutes until the real memory is filled up and then the machine

goes into paging/swapping.

-ulrich-