Guest Peter Lange Posted March 7, 2008 Posted March 7, 2008 Hi Sometimes I get the following popup on my Windows 2003 R2 STD x64 Server: "Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. During this process, memory requests for some applications may be denied." My Server has 8GB of ram. The paging file is right now at 12GB. Before I rebooted the system I already had 20GB. The virtual meomry is set to "System managed size" Is this a normal behavior or do I have to investigate on that? Regards Peter
Guest Brian Cryer Posted March 7, 2008 Posted March 7, 2008 Re: Virtual Memory to low "Peter Lange" <gnusmas50@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:CCD98E35-7513-4996-8CD8-D0ED6AEF2999@microsoft.com... > Hi > > Sometimes I get the following popup on my Windows 2003 R2 STD x64 Server: > "Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of > your virtual memory paging file. During this process, memory requests for > some applications may be denied." > > My Server has 8GB of ram. > The paging file is right now at 12GB. Before I rebooted the system I > already had 20GB. > The virtual meomry is set to "System managed size" > > Is this a normal behavior or do I have to investigate on that? Whilst I've never worked on a x64 server or one with more than 4GB of RAM, this does sound like it should be investigated. The real issue is probably whether there is an application (or set of applications) that genuinely need to be allocating that much RAM or is there a memory leak somewhere (ProcessExplorer is probably a better tool to use than TaskManager for this). So I'd look at where the memory is going, what's using it. Once you know where its gone then you can assess whether its reasonable that your server needs to allocate so much virtual memory. -- Brian Cryer http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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