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The thread discusses a Windows Server 2019 experiencing slowness, with the original poster suspecting full memory usage as the cause. A responder advises that high memory utilization can lead to thrashing and recommends maintaining memory usage between 50-70% for optimal performance, suggesting adding more RAM if necessary. Overall, the discussion emphasizes monitoring and managing memory to improve server speed.
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I'm running a Windows Server 2019. It is very slow. Is this why? My memory is all used up? What should Memory % be for a server? What is the optimum or expected value to make a server run smoothly?

An image from 'Confirm my memory problem?'. Task Manager shows 96% memory usage with multiple processes running under Admin user.
 

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Very high memory utilization can cause thrashing. That is when the CPU constantly has to page data in and out of memory. I would try to keep the average memory use between 50-70% to avoid thrashing. Ram is cheap, so if this is a physical box buy some ram, if it's a vm power down and bump up the ram.
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Very high memory utilization can cause thrashing. That is when the CPU constantly has to page data in and out of memory. I would try to keep the average memory use between 50-70% to avoid thrashing. Ram is cheap, so if this is a physical box buy some ram, if it's a vm power down and bump up the ram.
 

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