High Page/sec with decreasing Available Memory

[Guest Dabwang4363]

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]

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.