Increased server memory consumption & Task Manager (PF utilization) Increasing: number of concerns handles

Over the last one or two months, I've found that the server's memory footprint is increasing at 60M per day.

A Windows 2003 server (2G memory), which has just started to occupy memory: about 600M.

Memory consumption (PF use) after 20 days of operation: 1.8G

In fact, the physical memory usage in these 20 days has not changed much, but the virtual memory consumption is obviously constantly increasing.

I have been unable to find out which process is consuming so much memory through Task Manager.

Perhaps it is because the memory footprint shown in the Task manager represents only "physical memory consumption".

Today, comparing the display of Task Manager on the server and on the local computer, one of the previous differences was found: "Handle number":

The number of handles on the server reaches more than 30,000, while the number of handles on the local computer is only 16,000.

By Baidu Search, the handle generally includes file handle, window handle and so on.

I wonder why the server has so many handles, and what kind of handle is it?

We switch to the Processes tab on the Task Manager, then click on the Menu "View", "option column", select "Handle Count", and then see this:

The original is 360tray.exe "Handle number" reached more than 14,000.

I completely exited 360 on the server (click to exit, the entire process may need to wait for 20 seconds), and then see the memory usage on the server (PE usage) is immediately lowered:

I don't have to restart the server every one months, just restart 360 every one months.

The last thing I want to say is that there are a number of reasons why the memory usage of the server is increasing, and I'm just having one of them.

2011-03-30

Increased server memory consumption & Task Manager (PF utilization) Increasing: number of concerns handles