Is the host's memory over-subscribed by all of the guests? On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife < joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov> wrote:
> This DC is 2012R2. It is a VMWare guest. It has been running at 95%+ > memory utilization. I’m not sure for how long, but I happened to see an > alarm for CPU utilization on the guest when I was in vCenter yesterday > afternoon. When I RDP into the domain controller, it is very slow to > login. I open Task Manager, and on the Performance tab, Memory is at 98%, > and steady. I look at the Processes tab, and the memory shown as used > doesn’t add up. There are lots of processes using memory, but the largest > user is using around 100MB. The box has 4GB assigned. Looking at the > Details tab doesn’t shed any more light on the issue. So, our first > thought is some kind of memory leak, so we schedule and perform a reboot > last night. As soon as the box comes back up, I log in, and memory is > right back at 98%. I compare with a couple other DCs, and one of those has > around the same number of processes running, but its highest user is right > around 1GB, and its overall usage is around 60%. What other tools can I > use to help figure out where that memory is going? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Joe Heaton > > Information Technology Operations Branch > > Data and Technology Division > > CA Department of Fish and Wildlife > > 1700 9th Street, 3rd Floor > > Sacramento, CA 95811 > > Desk: (916) 323-1284 > > > > Every Californian should conserve water. Find out how at: > > SaveOurWater.com <http://saveourwater.com/> · Drought.CA.gov > <http://drought.ca.gov/> > > >