ArcGIS Hosting Server javaw.exe consume high memory

Liliaaaaaa

Hi folks,

The javaw.exe of our ArcGIS Hosting Server always consumes very high memory (as screenshot below) regardless of how many users/activities. Does anyone have similar experience? Not sure if this will cause any issue for the system? also how to address this high memory consumption issue?

Thank you!

Scott_Tansley

While a dedicated Hosting Server is quite lightweight in its memory usage.  However, as soon as you start adding map and imagery services (especially if the map services are dedicated instances) then the memory will grow significantly and this is somewhat 'average'. 

The following is a brand new server with no services on it:

The following is an established production server (during a quiet time).  There are no image services, and only map services shows:

There are a good number of much larger arcsoc.exe in your screenshot, and I think that if you were to stop the larger (image) services then you may see an associated drop in your Javaw memory usage.

Generally I recommend clients to separate out the hosting server from the general purpose (map/geoproc) machine and again from the Image Server, but this is obviously dependent on a range of practical and budgetary factors.  Refer to:

https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/get-started/latest/windows/additional-server-deployment.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_DD3657E382A44370923E4E86C1F9B582

Generally when  you throw lots of different service types onto one machine, then you start to see issues like you've observed.