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Exchange Store using up RAM
I run a SBS 2011 on a Dell PowerEdge T320, 16 GB of RAM. Exchange Store is using all the available RAM (more than 7 GB). I tried to limit that behavior and I set the msExchESEParamCacheSizeMax
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This is that way by design. Exchange uses as much RAM as it can get. Don't worry about it.
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I know it is by design to get as much RAM as available but the two parameters were supposed to limit that behavior why are they not working?
It also hinders another application. I run a database ACS (by acstechnologies.com). For us it is just as important as the Exchange. When Exchange Store is in check the database runs fine, when Exchange Store is gobbling RAM the database crawls and crashes.
It also hinders another application. I run a database ACS (by acstechnologies.com). For us it is just as important as the Exchange. When Exchange Store is in check the database runs fine, when Exchange Store is gobbling RAM the database crawls and crashes.
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Yes, I restarted the Store and the server since.
If you have something else on the server and it wants the memory, then Exchange should give it back. If it isn't, then something is stopping it from doing so. That would probably also be the reason why the limitation methods you are using (which is not recommended) are also not working.
What else do you have on the server? Anything integrating with Exchange?
Simon.
What else do you have on the server? Anything integrating with Exchange?
Simon.
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SBS 2011 standard nothing else.
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Only the database data is on the server.
What I want to understand is why after I set the msExchESEParamCacheSizeMax
What I want to understand is why after I set the msExchESEParamCacheSizeMax
"SBS 2011 standard nothing else. "
Absolutely nothing else? No AV, Anti-spam etc?
As I have said, the reason the parameter you have set doesn't work is almost certainly the same reason that the memory isn't being given back by something else that wants it.
If Exchange is only using 7gb of RAM on a 16gb RAM machine, you must have something else on the machine. I am looking at an SBS 2011 machine right now with 16gb of RAM on it and Exchange is using close to 16gb of it.
Simon.
Absolutely nothing else? No AV, Anti-spam etc?
As I have said, the reason the parameter you have set doesn't work is almost certainly the same reason that the memory isn't being given back by something else that wants it.
If Exchange is only using 7gb of RAM on a 16gb RAM machine, you must have something else on the machine. I am looking at an SBS 2011 machine right now with 16gb of RAM on it and Exchange is using close to 16gb of it.
Simon.
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"SBS 2011 standard nothing else. "
I do not connect the server to the Internet except for updates. The AV runs on the Gateway to my network and the workstations same with the Anti-spam.
I do not connect the server to the Internet except for updates. The AV runs on the Gateway to my network and the workstations same with the Anti-spam.
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I checked in Task Manager all the processes. They seem legit and added up they make the 15.5 GB used. I start to believe it is not the server but the network. I still do not understand why Exchange does not stay in the limits but I want to install a network monitor and test the network. I will also add more memory to the server; it is visibly bugged down during working hours.