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In task manager, one of my servers are showing that it is using 8.90 gigs of memory. &nbsp;Is that unusally high. &nbsp;If so, what troubleshooting steps can I take to find out why the memory increased like that?
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In task manager, one of my servers are showing that it is using 8.90 gigs of memory.  Is that unusally high.  If so, what troubleshooting steps can I take to find out why the memory increased like that?

Task Manager and Memory

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