Re: High memory usage (*HELP*)

How much free space is there available on the C drive? If you have low disk
space available, the system will log a specific message indicating that, and
not one related to virtual memory.

Low on virtual memory does not necessarily mean anything with regard to disk
space. It could just as easily be page file configuration. Do you have a
page file set up at 1.5 times the size of your physical RAM? Go to Control
Panel -> System and check it. You may need to do something with that.

Please post back with the size of your C drive and the amount of free space
(from My Computer). Also the pagefile settings.


"ITDUDE27" <ITDUDE27@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dave,

I think i've narrowed it down to a disk space issue. This is a disk space
issue because i'm down to 2Gig on the server, i've just noticed antry in
the
system log "System is low on virtual memory."
suggestion besides getting new drive.
Thanks.

"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" wrote:

You mean you are running out of free RAM, or disk space? Disk space is a
separate issue from what we've been talking about.

If your system uses all the available RAM, and you're not having specific
negative symptoms, you can ignore that. Unlike desktop PCs, it's common
and
acceptable for a server to put all of its available RAM to use.


"ITDUDE27" <ITDUDE27@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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thanks again.

Now i've got to point where lsass.exe and inetinfo.exe has allocatted a
vast
of memory also. I'm running out of disk space fast. There has to be
something
going on, and I can't put my finger on it.

I had to reboot the server again this morning.


"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" wrote:

I'll give you a quick response, but please feel free to follow up with
questions:

1. Ignore store.exe. You've got plenty of RAM and it's to your
benefit
performance wise to let it do what it wants. 800 MB is probably not
unusual
on a server with 4 GB - mine consistently runs around 700.

2. What SQL processes are using all that RAM? Open Task Manager and
view
the processes, making sure you're displaying the PID (Process ID).
Open
a
cmd prompt and type "tasklist /svc" which will display what the PIDs
represent, so you can tell if it's ISA, Monitoring, or SharePoint.

3. I haven't tried to throttle back the RAM used by SharePoint, but
I've
throttled ISA and Monitoring. See this KB that tells how to do it
with
ISA.
You can do the same for Monitoring. For every command that references
"msfw" in the ISA doc, substitute "sbsmonitoring" to throttle
monitoring.
I
have not been able to find authoritative recommendations for an amount
of
RAM to throttle it to, but I set both ISA and Monitoring to 128 MB and
have
not had any problems with either one.

You may experience high memory usage on an ISA Server 2004-based
computer
that logs messages to an MSDE database
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;909636

4. If you're getting allocated memory alerts from the server, what I
did
was to run it for 30 days. Then I went into monitoring on the Server
Mgmt
Console and set the threshold to 110% of the 30 day average. I'm
still
well
under the 4 GB, and I'm not getting the alerts any more.

FWIW, I don't think this is anything to do with a virus or other
problem.
I
think it's "normal" functions that are configured less than optimally.

"ITDUDE27" <ITDUDE27@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I'm running on a SBS 2003 environment with 4gig of RAM. Lately i've
had
instances where both sqlserver.exe and store.exe allocate 800Meg of
ram
each
which eventually causes the box to hing. I know exchage can take a
good
chunk
of memory, but is it normal for both to take up as much.
IIS occupy close to 1Gig. I think something going on I 've ran
virus
scan,
spywares
nothing reported. Can anyone help.

Thanks in advance.








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