Physical Memory Usage

[barracuda]

My Server Specs are as Follows

 

Dual HarperTown E5410

 

Dual Quad E5410's

2x(2.33Ghz x 4, 12MB Cache, 1333FSB)

6GB DDRII Ram

250 GB SATA II HDD

2000GB Premium Bandwidth

Windows Server 2008

 

The I have 6 GB of Ram, 4 GB of Memory in Use.

Looking at TaskManger, The Performance tab.

 

Physical Memory (MB)

Total: 6142 MB

Cached: 2552 MB

Free: 101 MB

 

CPU Usage - 2% - Maximum it goes to is 10%.

 

I would like to know why the server is Cacheing so High? Or Exactly what it means.

 

The MySQL Is Running The Server's TCAdmin Site

It is TCAdmin Master Monitor

TCAdmin Services - Installed Services: 35

Total Processes Running - 114 Services/Processes

 

I'm planing to upgrade the ram, but yet I still would like to know why it is using so much?

 

Thanks ahead of time.

[{-SMAKU-}_MotorMouth]

In Windows Server 2008 it's not using all the RAM it shows. Just like Vista and W7 it will cache it so it's there when you need it for those programs. If your not running the programs that the OS has the RAM setup for it will dump it for the program that needs it.