Re: User Memory Quotas

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:12:02 -0700

Also, the user right policy you have mentioned governs
the ability to adjust quotas used the processor scheduling
algorithms. AFAIK it is not involved in adjustment of
memory usage. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"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.
>
> 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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