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Memory Usage Increases When Restoring Data From a Remote FSD Located on a Windows 2008 SP2 and Windows 2008 R2 Server

Valid on all operating systems.

Symptom

The system response becomes very slow because of the increase in memory usage. The reason why this occurs is because the behavior of the Windows operating system as the system file cache consumes most of the physical RAM.

Solution

To resolve this issue, follow the work-around in the knowledge base article from the Microsoft link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976618/en-us.