User Memory Quotas

From: Bodger (jbrown_at_jlbprof.com)
Date: 12/22/04

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    Date: 22 Dec 2004 14:05:36 -0800

    User Memory Quotas

    We are trying to track down a problem that is plaguing us. It seems
    even though we have a ton of memory and large pagefile.sys our programs
    start to fail as if there is no memory in which to run.

    We think there might be a Quota on our User that we are hitting some
    maximum allowed memory quota.

    http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/541.asp

    We have allowed the user and administrator to adjust the quotas, but we
    cannot find out a way to query if a quota exists or how to set the
    quota itself.

    How do you find out if a quota exists? And how does one change it if
    it does exist?

    I cannot find any gui in our system that allows us to access it. Only
    a local policy that allows the user to change quotas.

    We are not a domain, only a workgroup of exactly one computer in a
    remote site.

    Details:

    We have Windows 2003 Server in a remote data center, it is a web server
    among other things. To support the services provided by the web
    server we run some home grown programs in a logged in user account
    running in the task bar. We have 4 gigs of memory (we rarely use over
    700 megs) and 6 gigs of pagefile.sys.

    When our programs have been running for a long time the memory does
    creep up, but the total between them is no more then 100 megs. We run
    Active State Perl programs as well that come and go as necessary.

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