Monitoring and managing memory - Windows Server Capacity Management 101(11 of 12)

When monitoring and managing memory in Windows there are normally a couple of questions that people always ask, so I thought I'd deal with these.

How full can I run memory?

I find that a good rule of thumb is 90%.

How do I know when we're starting to run out of memory?

There are a number of indicators that can alert you to the fact that there are problems with memory and these are:

·       Page faults increase

·       Soft faults occur first (move things around in memory)

·       Then hard faults (write pages to disk)

·       Increases reads from and writes to page file (hard faults)

·       Reads from image files can increase

·       Eventually the system will stop responding – or just stop

In my final blog on Monday I'll be looking at how to monitor and manage disk and summarizing.
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Josh Worth
Consultant