Help with memory usage issues on VPS
- by Niall Collins
Hi there,
I am running a VPS server with 6 .net web sites/applications running on it. I am having issues with performance on the server, mainly it running out of memory. I contacted the company that lease the server to me and they told me it was because I also had sql server 2008 express also running on the server. So I went ahead and removed this, uninstalled etc. However I still seem to be having issues.
For example at present, looking at resource consumption, the virtual memory is:
ID: vprvmem
Current Use: 894,328,832 bytes
Limit: 1,073,741,824 bytes
This means useage of ~80%.
Is there any way I can check out exactly that applications, web sites, software is taking up most of the servers memory, so I can look at rectifying it. I feel that 80% is much to high to allow for contingency for a spike in traffic. I have got extra memory resources added to the box recently, but I would prefer finding the source of the problem rather than throwing extra memory at it.
Maybe these levels are correct and alls running ok, but would like to investigate it to make sure. My knowledge of hardware is limited as I mostly deal in the spectrum of software.
So any tools out there that can help me or any pertient advice.
