terminal server 2003 perfmon pages/sec

[Guest zerbie45@gmail.com]

hello guys,

 

I have a battery of terminal server used with office and some

financial applications. I noticed with perfmon that pages/sec usage is

always extremely high, costantly on top of the graph.

 

how can I find out which process is causing this high usage of ram ?

task manager does not show any possible culprits.

 

thanks in advance!

zz

[Guest Jeff Pitsch]

Re: terminal server 2003 perfmon pages/sec

 

How have you determined that they are high? Are you having issues with the

system? Are you comparing it to a baseline you took when the servers were

originally created? Has the baseline been updated over time? Keep in mind

that default values in perfmon do not necessarily represent the best values

for your particular environment. Your pages may be completely normal for

your environment and unless you baselined the servers previously and can say

that on this date the pages were this and now they are this high, you really

have no idea if what your seeing is a problem.

 

Jeff Pitsch

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

 

 

<zerbie45@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> hello guys,

>

> I have a battery of terminal server used with office and some

> financial applications. I noticed with perfmon that pages/sec usage is

> always extremely high, costantly on top of the graph.

>

> how can I find out which process is causing this high usage of ram ?

> task manager does not show any possible culprits.

>

> thanks in advance!

> zz

[Guest zerbie45@gmail.com]

Re: terminal server 2003 perfmon pages/sec

 

On Jul 17, 2:19 pm, "Jeff Pitsch" <j...@jeffpitschconsulting.com>

wrote:

> How have you determined that they are high?  Are you having issues with the

> system?  Are you comparing it to a baseline you took when the servers were

> originally created?  Has the baseline been updated over time?  Keep in mind

> that default values in perfmon do not necessarily represent the best values

> for your particular environment.  Your pages may be completely normal for

> your environment and unless you baselined the servers previously and can say

> that on this date the pages were this and now they are this high, you really

> have no idea if what your seeing is a problem.

>

> Jeff Pitsch

> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

>

> <zerbi...@gmail.com> wrote in message

>

> news:59c879c1-e9c7-478d-a4e6-5fb7009dd976@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

>

>

>

> > hello guys,

>

> > I have a battery of terminal server used with office and some

> > financial applications. I noticed with perfmon that pages/sec usage is

> > always extremely high, costantly on top of the graph.

>

> > how can I find out which process is causing this high usage of ram ?

> > task manager does not show any possible culprits.

>

> > thanks in advance!

> > zz- Hide quoted text -

>

> - Show quoted text -

 

thanks for your answer.

No, I don't have a baseline. the server is running fine but it does

look a bit "slow", even though task manager is not showing a high

usage of cpus and page file.

that's why I used perf mon. I have a battery of five terminal servers,

and on three of them there is a access application that seems to be

causing this pages/sec counter to be costantly over the top. the other

two terminal servers have this counter nearly at zero. I selected the

same counter (pages/sec) using the process counter and selecting this

particular process and again I see a high number of pages/sec, while

other applications (firefox, outlook, excel, etc) do not show this

behaviour....

 

do you have an idea of how to better troubleshoot this ?

 

thanks again for your help.

zz

[Guest TP]

Re: terminal server 2003 perfmon pages/sec

 

Hi,

 

Most likely you are seeing the result of the access .mdb file being

read into cache [Page In, a subset of Pages/sec]. How big is your

database files? Do people run queries frequently? Are these

queries performing well?

 

In task manager, is Commit Charge Total well below Physical

Memory Total? Is System Cache a large number as well?

 

When you have an application that does a lot of file i/o it is good

to have plenty of excess RAM that will go to system cache. That

is why I asked you if the commit charge is below physical. Depending

on your needs it may make sense for this to be several gigs below.

 

Thanks.

 

-TP

 

zerbie45@gmail.com wrote:

> thanks for your answer.

> No, I don't have a baseline. the server is running fine but it does

> look a bit "slow", even though task manager is not showing a high

> usage of cpus and page file.

> that's why I used perf mon. I have a battery of five terminal servers,

> and on three of them there is a access application that seems to be

> causing this pages/sec counter to be costantly over the top. the other

> two terminal servers have this counter nearly at zero. I selected the

> same counter (pages/sec) using the process counter and selecting this

> particular process and again I see a high number of pages/sec, while

> other applications (firefox, outlook, excel, etc) do not show this

> behaviour....

>

> do you have an idea of how to better troubleshoot this ?

>

> thanks again for your help.

> zz