Re: User Memory Quotas

From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:23:19 -0600

"Roger Abell" <mvpNOSpam@asu.edu> wrote in message
news:#xAWP5L6EHA.3756@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> 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.
>

There are rights involved in changing Working
Set -- which is the programmer term for the memory
allocation of a single process/program. 

-- 
Herb Martin
> -- 
> 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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