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Windows System Resource Manager

Saturday, 12 February 2005 by Michel Roth

Haven't used it myself but it sounds promising for those of us who cannot use third party resource managing tools: Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM). Unfortunately it only runs on Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition ( 32-bit or 64-bit).

WSRM enables a system administrator to do the following:

� Set CPU and memory allocation policies on applications. This includes selecting processes to be managed, and setting resource usage targets or limits.
� Manage CPU utilization (percent CPU in use).
� Limit the process working set size (physical resident pages in use).
� Manage committed memory (pagefile usage).
� Apply policies to users or groups on a Terminal Services application server.
� Apply policies on a date/time schedule.
� Generate, store, view, and export resource utilization accounting records for management, service level agreement (SLA) tracking, and charge-back purposes.

WSRM maintains an updatable exclusion list of processes that shouldn't be managed because of the negative system impact such management could create. WSRM also applies limits to process working set size and committed memory consumption. WSRM does not manage address windowing extensions (AWE) memory, large page memory, locked memory, or OS pool memory.

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