Inspect the top processes consuming the highest memory on the server. You may use the Task Manager or execute the following ...

  1. Inspect the top processes consuming the highest memory on the server. You may use the Task Manager or execute the following PowerShell Command:
    get-process|Sort-Object -Descending WS | Select-Object -First 10
    If there are unexpected processes consuming high memory, stop the processes using the following PowerShell command:
    stop-process -ProcessName [name of the process]
  2. If the processes seen in the above list are the intended processes running on the server, please consider re-evaluating the deployment requirements of this server.
  3. As a failsafe option, you may consider restarting the server.