How To Repair Windows Server 2008 R2

Struggling to gear up high retentivity usage by Metafile on Windows Server 2008 R2?

At Bobcares we ofttimes get requests to fix loftier retentiveness usage past Metafile on Windows Server 2008 R2 as of our Server Management Services.

Today, let'southward take a look at the details of this memory usage result and some tips to fix information technology.

Loftier RAM Load on Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 is prone to face high RAM load which results in issues with the server and awarding performance.

From the Job Manager, nosotros tin see that physical memory is decorated by 95-99%

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And from the Processes tab, we volition not exist able to find any leaked process with abnormally high memory consumption.

When we sum up the guess values of memory used by all processes nosotros will not become even 50% of the concrete memory we accept on our server.

How to observe the actual RAM usage?

To get the actual data on RAM usage nosotros can use a small utility – RAMMap.

We accept to download the archive containing the tool and run RAMMap.exe with the ambassador privileges.

And so from the 'Use Counts' tab, we can see that Metafile is using the largest amount of RAM.

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What is a Metafile ?

A metafile is a part of the organization cache that contains NTFS metadata. Metafile increases the performance of the file system while accessing information technology.

NTFS metadata includes the data of MFT (Principal File Table). Every time a file or folder is accessed by the users, a respective block of at to the lowest degree i KB is created in the metafile.

How to Quickly Clean Up metafile?

Windows Server 2008 R2 with besides many files will have a large metafile size (NTFS enshroud)

In that location are two methods with which nosotros can clean upwardly metafile. Using either of the method will fix high memory usage by Metafile on Windows Server 2008 R2

Using RAMMap tool
Dynamic Cache Service to Manage the File Enshroud

ane. Clearing memory using RAMMap

RAMMap allows to clear the used memory quickly without server restart.

Select Empty -> Empty System Working Ready in the menu.

Nosotros can see that the size of metafile in the retentivity reduces, and the percentage of RAM used past CPU drops from 95% to 26%.

2. Managing the File Cache with Dynamic Cache Service

This service allows usa to manage the parameters of dedicated MFT cache using arrangement APIs.

We need to download DynCache and then copy the file DynCache.exe to %SystemRoot%\System32 folder

Then we need to create DynCache service.

fix high memory usage by metafile on windows server 2008 r2

We tin use the following command:

sc create DynCache binpath= %SystemRoot%\System32\DynCache.exe beginning= auto type= ain DisplayName= "Dynamic Cache Service" install DynCache service

Later on calculation the control we need to import DynCache.reg to the registry which ontains default values.
And then we have to change the values of the following register keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\DynCache\Parameters  1. MaxSystemCacheMBytes: 4096 (dec) – the maximum cache size(Mb) 2. MinSystemCacheMBytes: 100 (dec) – the minimum cache size (MB)MaxSystemCacheMBytes

We need to proceed in listen that DynCache service settings have to exist edited according to the RAM size, the server load, required performance, etc.

After the changes are made, we do not need to restart DynCache, since all changes are applied dynamically.

Now we tin run the service using this control:

sc start DynCache

After running Dynamic Cache Service we will be able to see that the memory usage in the server has decreased to a normal corporeality.

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Conclusion

In short, we've discussed the causes of the result. Likewise, we saw two methods that our Back up Engineers follow to fix this memory usage issue.

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