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Another reason to use dynamic memory…

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Have you started looking at dynamic memory in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1?

If you have not – why??

I have been using dynamic memory on my home server infrastructure since January at the begining of this year, and have become completely addicted to it.  Recently I decided to setup a Remote Desktop Gateway server so that I could easily and securely connect to my various home server systems when I was at work.

I have notice that it has been sporadically dropping connections (and then immediately reconnecting).  There are a number of things that could be causing this (and top of the list would probably be that I am using pre-release software for pretty much everything) but I decided that the first thing I would try would be to give the server more memory.

So while I was at work – I connected to my Hyper-V server (through the Remote Desktop Gateway virtual machine), opened the virtual machine settings for the Remote Desktop Gateway virtual machine, and changed the memory buffer setting from 20% to 30%.

Instantly my Remote Desktop Gateway server received more memory – while I was connected to other servers through the gateway – all with no downtime.  Neat!

Now to wait and see if this fixes the dropped connection issue.

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 29, 2010
    Not to be Debbie Downer, but I'll wait for others to use Dynamic Memory in the real work with this in the RTM SP1 for a while until I start using it.   Cowardly (or shrewdly?) Yours,

  • Anonymous
    September 29, 2010
    Any hints on how close SP1 is to RTM? I will use it on our Dev hyper-V hosts as soon as it comes out, but not in RC or Beta.

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2010
    "If you have not – why??" Because our remote desktop gateway server might start sporadically dropping connections. I think you answered your own question ;)

  • Anonymous
    October 03, 2010
    If I update a 2k8 R2 server with SP1 beta, should I be able of aplying SP1 RTM? TIA

  • Anonymous
    October 03, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    October 04, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2010
    Robert - True, but I hope you are at least able to setup a test server on the side to be looking at this - and ensure that it works with your environment. Ian Burrowes - Sorry, I cannot and will not discuss release dates. Rik Hemsley - Good one.  Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your perspective) this change did not solve my problem - so I need to keep digging in to figure out why it is dropping the connection occaisonally. A. - Yes. OtherKevin - Yes, you are correct. Cheers, Ben

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    November 01, 2010
    Ian Burrowes - Today you can set the startup and the maximum memory for a virtual machine - and it will then move between those values as needed - however you cannot change the maximum memory at runtime (which is what you want to do here).  This has been asked for a number of times now - but it is unlikely to change for this release (sorry). Cheers, Ben