Comments on: Monitoring RAM usage on a Windows 2003 network

By: Featured Member: Valmsmith - ITKE Community Blog

Featured Member: Valmsmith - ITKE Community Blog — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:11:28 +0000

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By: darkstar911

darkstar911 — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:38:41 +0000

Don’t mean to be rude, But Valmsmith, Did you even read his question? Your answer is totally irrelevant to his question. Anyhow, you can use performance monitor to monitor the machines on your network.

By: valmsmith

valmsmith — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:09:25 +0000

Is the WinXP SP-3, home or pro edition, 32 or 64 bit? WIndowsXP home can only use 2GB of RAM even though the system MIGHT acknowledge up to about 3GB. If I were tracking your issue I would simply go and install the maximum amount of RAM for each machine. Ram is inexpensive now-a-days, and it would solve all the problem you are addressing here. You also have to remember that the higher quantity of RAM mudules in a system = more power required, and in some cases more RAM will actually cause a system to slow down due to the number of pins the data has to cross going from A to B. I would set the maimum ‘available virtual memory’ to twice the amount of physical RAM, that should give your network the boost it needs to maintain integrity and performance.