A user in your organization is facing some performance issues on his computer, so you set a performance monitor that monitors memory, processor, disk, and network. To monitor his computer memory, you are monitoring the Memory Available MBytes counter. The Memory Available MBytes counter averages 8 MB over a typical sampling period. What should you do now?
A)Add more RAM.
B)Nothing needs to be done. No bottleneck issue.
C)Increase the size of the page file.
D)Split the page file over two physical disk channels.

Question

A user in your organization is facing some performance issues on his computer, so you set a performance monitor that monitors memory, processor, disk, and network. To monitor his computer memory, you are monitoring the Memory > Available MBytes counter. The Memory > Available MBytes counter averages 8 MB over a typical sampling period. What should you do now?
A)Add more RAM.
B)Nothing needs to be done. No bottleneck issue.
C)Increase the size of the page file.
D)Split the page file over two physical disk channels.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

A value of 8 MB in the Memory > Available MBytes counter requires no action to be taken.
Key Takeaway: As long as the counter for Memory > Available MBytes shows more than 4MB of memory, no bottleneck is indicated and no intervention is needed. If the number is below 4MB, then you should add more physical memory to the computer.

A User in Your Organization Is Facing Some Performance Issues