How do you determine which user and processes are causing a dramatic rise in the page file? In task manager it only shows the physical memory portion on the issue, but is there a way to see who is accessing the page file? Thanks. -Tim.

Hi, Thank you for your post here. You can add more columns into the Task Manager to get the following performance counters on Memory. You can count on Memory: Commit Size counter to get the amount of page file space that would be used if the process was completely made nonresident. Process Explorer is an alternative tool you can use. Memory - Working Set Amount of memory in the private working set plus the amount of memory the process is using that can be shared by other processes. Memory - Peak Working Set Maximum amount of working set memory used by the process. Memory - Working Set Delta Amount of change in working set memory used by the process. Memory - Private Working Set Subset of working set that specifically describes the amount of memory a process is using that cannot be shared by other processes. Memory - Commit Size Amount of virtual memory that is reserved for use by a process. Memory - Paged Pool Amount of committed virtual memory for a process that can be written to another storage medium, such as the hard disk. Memory - Non-paged Pool Amount of committed virtual memory for a process that cannot be written to another storage medium.

You can add more columns by selecting "Select Column" from the view menu... You'll find a lot of useful options... In addition to the above mentioned by Miles... I also like the Page fault, which shows me how much data the application brought from the hard disk & stuff like that...MCTS, MCP