You work as the help desk support technician at Domain.com. The Domain.com network consists of a single Active Directory domain named Domain.com. All client computers on the Domain.com network run Windows XP Professional, and are equipped with a Pentium III 999 MHz processor, 256 MB of RAM, and a 40-GB hard disk.
A user named Clive Wilson reports that more or less two hours after turning on his computer and running several applications, the computer and applications are very slow to respond. Clive Wilson also receives the following message.
After monitoring Clive Wilson’s compute for a few days, you notice that This same message appears every day two hours after starting his computer and running several applications.
Which of the following is the task that you should carry out discover the most probable source of this message?
A.
Instruct Clive Wilson to run System Monitor to see if the % Processor Time counter consistently exceeds 80.
B.
Instruct Clive Wilson to run System Monitor to see if the Memory/Page Faults/sec counter consistently exceeds 50.
C.
Instruct Clive Wilson to run Task Manager to see if any processes are continually consuming memory.
D.
Instruct Clive Wilson to run Task Manager to see if the number of currently running processes exceeds 40.
Explanation:
The virtual memory is the space your computer uses when it runs short of RAM memory.
If you run out of virtual memory when using your computer normally then you probably have an application that is suffering from a “memory leak”, meaning that the application allocates new memory when it needs it but never “releases” used memory once it does not need it anymore.