RAMMap – How Windows manages memory, analyze application memory usage, how RAM is being allocated

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Have you ever wondered exactly how Windows is assigning physical memory, how much file data is cached in RAM, or how much RAM is used by the kernel and device drivers? RAMMap makes answering those questions easy. RAMMap is an advanced physical memory usage analysis utility for Windows Vista and higher. It presents usage information in different ways on its several different tabs:

Use Counts: usage summary by type and paging list
Processes: process working set sizes
Priority Summary: prioritized standby list sizes
Physical Pages: per-page use for all physical memory
Physical Ranges: physical memory addresses
File Summary: file data in RAM by file
File Details: individual physical pages by file

Use RAMMap to gain understanding of the way Windows manages memory, to analyze application memory usage, or to answer specific questions about how RAM is being allocated. RAMMap’s refresh feature enables you to update the display and it includes support for saving and loading memory snapshots.

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Sharepoint MOSS 2007 Web Front End Server Event ID 6398 6482 7076

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Article ID : 946517
Last Review : August 7, 2008
Revision : 4.0

SYMPTOMS

Consider the following scenario. You have a process that has more than one thread. Additionally, the process uses the Internet Information Services (IIS) Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) provider to access IIS. Two threads access IIS at the same time. In this scenario, you may be unable to manage IIS by using Server Manager.

When this problem occurs, you must restart IIS, or you must restart the process that uses the IIS ADSI provider.

This problem is likely to occur for the SharePoint Timer service (OWSTimer.exe) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. When this problem occurs for the SharePoint Timer service, you may experience the following symptoms:

• In SharePoint Server 2007, tasks that are scheduled do not run.

• On the SharePoint Web front-end server, you see repeated errors in the Application log in Event Viewer. These errors usually include one of the following three events:

• Event ID 6398
• Event ID 6482
• Event ID 7076

For example, you may see an error message that resembles the following:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category: (964)
Event ID: 6398
Date: 11/7/2007
Time: 5:45:38
PM User: N/A
Computer: 44MOSSAGRUK
Description:
The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerAdministrationServiceJob
(ID 02b5e3f2-21e3-4552-bf1d-6e152749458a) threw an exception. More information is included below.

Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

• When you try to manage IIS by using Server Manager, you receive a blank page, or you receive the following error message:
the path specified cannot be used at this time

RESOLUTION
Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.

If the hotfix is available for download, there is a “Hotfix download available” section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, contact Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix.

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Windows Vista – Missing Hard Disk Space

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Looking for missing hard disk space on your Windows Vista installation ?

Well Vista creates restore points and shadow copies of your C:\ drive on a daily basis. This often equates to many Gigabytes !

Load Disk Cleanup, then if you click on the more options tab, and choose to ‘clean up’ the restore points and shadow copies, you should find a lot of disk space reappear. It will still keep your most recent shadow copies & restore points, but clears the older stuff off that your unlikely ever to use.

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categoriaWindows Vista commento1 Comment dataJuly 12th, 2007
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