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Process Managment memory-leak in Windows Server x64?

After clean install and boot of OS Windows x64 I launched cmd.exe (any other exe) and closed it. Then I launch rammap.exe (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx). On the 2nd page called "Processes" I sorted list by process…
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How to limit memory usage by application in linux?

I have a closed source software with some memory leaks problems. Is there a tool or solution to "sandboxe" processes in a fixed amount of memory without using "ulimit" (to generic, I need a per-application memory control)
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w3wp/asp.net High memory usage - Is this problematic?

We have a asp.net (.net 4.0) webapplication that is installed in several environments. In most environments, the memory usage is somewhere around 1GB. However, we have one environment where the memory usage peaks to 5.5GB. This is on a Server 2008…
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Underused Apache server raise MaxRequestWorkers reached: memory leak?

On an Ubuntu server with 1Gb of RAM, an Apache 2.4.7 server with default configuration started to occasionally stop responding to request. It's used for a personal cloud + other needs and a low traffic website. An error.log examination revealed…
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Automatically Kill/Restart Process(es) When Memory is Critically Low

I have a Debian Wheezy VPS box where am running a couple of Django apps in production. Ideally, would have tried addressed my current memory footprint issues by optimizing the apps, adding more RAM or augmenting with Swap. But the problem is that I…
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Docker memory leak?

I'm running Docker 0.9.0 uname -a Linux 3.11.0-18-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 18 21:11:14 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have 40 containers running at once. Each container is fairly simple - it runs a snippet of code in a Node…
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how to determine who is using the slabs?

Is there any way to figure out who or what is allocating size-256 slabs, like in the slabtop output below? I had to reboot a server yesterday that had 5G out of 8G RAM in size-256 slabs and was running out of memory, as dropping the caches (sysctl…
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IIS Memory management & thresholds with potential leaks

We're running some X64 Win Server 2012 webservers (So IIS 8). We're noticing that the free memory on the boxes is constantly sitting at 5-10% free. We actually run quite a lot of applications on these boxes (13 sites, 80 apps over 13 app pools).…
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Too much memory consumed during TFS automated build

We're running TFS 2010 Standard Edition, and we've set up an automated build to run whenever someone checks in code. We run through all of the automated tests (built with MSTest) as part of the build. We've configured the build to run the tests as a…
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linux log memory hogging issue

We have a VPS server (it's using Virtuozzo). On a few occasions now, our VPS memory was fully used up and no new connections could be made to the server on SSH, SMTP, or POP. The only thing that works is connecting to the web service. Luckily, plesk…
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lsass.exe memory leak on windows 2003 server

In the past month or so I noticed that lsass.exe has started to leak memory, getting to 500MB+ of ram in under a week after reboot. Before this I had never noticed it using any significant amount of memory compared to other processes on the…
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Diagnosing "File" tag memory leak in poolmon.exe on 2008R1SP2

We have a memory leak plaguing many of our 2008R1SP2 file servers. The "File" non paged memory tag in poolmon.exe will leak until shared folders are no longer available, and then RDP goes down with it (and we have to reboot via console). Sometimes…
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Windows server 2008 R2 High Memory Utilization

We are running a VM with Windows server 2008 R2, we see the physical memory utilization to be close to 100% always. Machine is running crystal reports server. Task manager counts to 99% memory Utilization, where a sum memory used by all the…
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Allowed Memory Size Exhausted irregardless of amount, Memory leak?

I'm running a small Wordpress blog for my sister on a very common CentOS 5.11 with Apache 2 and PHP 5.3.3. Lately, we discovered while she tried to update or install anything using Wordpress own interface it all stalled, and I found this: PHP Fatal…
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Finding Memory Leak on Linux

I'm going crazy trying to find a memory leak on one of our main boxes. It runs CentOS, kernel 2.6.18, x86-64. The box (actually VM on Xen) has been running great with no problems since it was created about 6 months ago. It was created to replace an…
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