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.