Dangerous Dave’s Tech Manager

I have been noticing certain organizations have been skimping on RAM when they install workstations.  The lack of enough RAM in workstations can affect the overall performance of a workstation.  This affect can also have an issue on network performance.  Paging file is the windows way of increasing a workstations ram by providing “virtual ram”.  This virtual ram increases the overall ram that windows can use.  The issue with a workstation that has decreased ram and subsequent increased virtual ram is that hard drive access is generally much slower than RAM access. The process than becomes hard drive access to RAM to windows availability.  This will in turn, decrease the speed of which a network resource is processed and therefore, decrease the availability of all network resources including the LAN.  RAM plays a significant role in the overall performance of a workstation and is readdressed to different part of workstations tasks.  Network Load balancing is a windows clustering mechanism that provides RAM to the network card based on network performance.  An intensive use of resources can reduce the RAM that is available to CPU in workstations and therefore, reduce the amount of RAM that is available to network resources such as the network adapter and network load balancing in Windows.  Please, ensure that your workstations have enough RAM so you don’t run into any issues with network performance or worker productivity

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