Monitoring Windows memory use
Memory is a critical resource for increasing the performance of backup operations.
To monitor Windows memory use
- Start the Windows Performance Monitor.
For instructions, refer to your Microsoft documentation.
- To examine memory usage, view information on the following:
| Committed Bytes displays the size of virtual memory that has been committed, as opposed to reserved. Committed memory must have disk storage available or must not require the disk storage because the main memory is large enough. If the number of Committed Bytes approaches or exceeds the amount of physical memory, you may encounter issues with page swapping.
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| Page Faults/sec is a count of the page faults in the processor. A page fault occurs when a process refers to a virtual memory page that is not in its working set in main memory. A high Page Fault rate may indicate insufficient memory.
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