Question : SharePoint Server 2010 - High RAM Usage (Suspect OWSTIMER.EXE memory leak)

Hello,

Recently I purchased HP ProLiant ML110 G6 Server (Intel Xeon 3440 - 2.53GHz Quad Core, 4GB of RAM - DDR3 HP Genuine, 250GB SATA 7200 RPM)

I installed Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition along with SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition. After that I installed Office Professional Plus 2010 32 bit edition and SharePoint Server 2010 Standalone mode.

The installation went successful. This is just a test server. No other 3rd party software installed.

When I started using SharePoint Server 2010, it's taking 1.5GB of RAM and gradually it goes to 3.8GB and only 200MB is available. Then I closed the browser and increased virtual memory (page file) from system managed (4GB) to: 8GB (assigned between 8GB - 16GB). Restarted the server. Still the same problem.

I come to know that the OWSTIMER.EXE process is taking huge memory (memory leak) on server 2008 platform. Also number of Timers are increased from 21 to 60 in SharePoint Server 2010. As per Microsoft hardware requirements for SharePoint Server 2010, they recommended 4GB of RAM for evaluation purposes.

UPDATE:

I just installed all available updates from Microsoft. Ran Disk Cleanup and de-fragmentation. Restarted the Server and still it taking 3GB of RAM steadily without opening any application even SharePoint! After opening SharePoint Administration in browser and couple of clicks later it went to 4GB this time!

Any further help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

Answer : SharePoint Server 2010 - High RAM Usage (Suspect OWSTIMER.EXE memory leak)

The ASA 5000 series adaptive security appliance includes a dedicated management interface called Management 0/0, which is meant to support traffic to the security appliance. However, you can configure any interface to be a management-only interface using the management-only command. Also, for Management 0/0, you can disable management-only mode so the interface can pass through traffic just like any other interface.
You can also add subinterfaces to the management interface to provide management in each security context for multiple context mode.

kindly revert back if you need further assistance