Guest Dabwang4363 Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 Hi all, we have a server that seems to be paging quite a bit. when i look at the performance counters pages/sec shoots up and Available memory falls for 30-60 seconds and then returns to normal. can some one describe what this might mean? thanks N.
Guest Alwin Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: High Page/sec with decreasing Available Memory On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:20:01 -0700, Dabwang4363 <Dabwang4363@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Hi all, we have a server that seems to be paging quite a bit. when i look at >the performance counters pages/sec shoots up and Available memory falls for >30-60 seconds and then returns to normal. > >can some one describe what this might mean? There is a task that consumes memory, obviously a lot of memory, and releases it. This memory hog thing either works cyclically, or eats memory until it crashes and gets restarted by some automatism. To find the culprit, either use perfmon.msc to monitor individual processes, or use simply task manager, open the "processes" tab, click on the header of the "memory" column (at the far right, sometimes you need to enlarge the task manager window so it gets visible) to sort processes by memory consumption, and then watch the display. Your memory eater cyclically should appear and climb to the top of the list every 30-60 seconds. Alwin.
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