Re: User Memory Quotas

From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:18:06 -0600

"Bodger" <jbrown@jlbprof.com> wrote in message
news:1103753136.218569.192900@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> 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.

Usually it's set in the program code.

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

Such quotas normally exist on a PER PROGRAM
basis but are typically left at the defaults by programmers
except for clear cases like SQL Server, Echange and
other such "big systems."

> 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.

There are programmer tools (IIRC) that will show/set
the quotas on excutables. You might query the Visual
Studio or VC lists.

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

Irrelevant probably.

> 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.

Have you done the obvous and just looked in TaskManager
and sorted by the various memory settings, including
Paged and NON-PAGED pool?

I don't recall any specific ActiveState Perl issues and I
run it on multiple machines daily. (It doesn't matter
if no Perl program is actually running). 

-- 
Herb Martin
>

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