The scenario you describe is more than likely correct - one user is probably running a large process and eating up all the memory - and the other users are made to wait until that process is finished. VFP will try and use as much memory as it can to do what it needs to do. Take a look at sys(3050) and try to limit the ram usage for each user - this might help.

I would at least double the ram in this machine - it has already probably cost you more than the $300 it will cost for a new 1gb stick to research the problem to this point.



>For a Server 2003 system running 10 simultaneous Terminal Services stations, how much memory should be installed ? Each station runs a VFP8 application (the EXE is about 6 MB) with large data files (about 50 files open simultaneously, and some as large as 20-30 MB each).
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>I was assuming Server 2003 needs about 512MB itself, and each station requiring a min of 256M (according to VFP8 runtime requirements), we would need to install 512M + 2,560 M = 3 Gigs minimum memory.
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>However, a Colleague argues that based on Memroy usage (he got from the Performance Tab of the Device Manager), it showed only 18MB was being used by each instance of VFP application, so he says, we don't need anywhere near what I am suggesting. The budget is tight, and he is trying to cut corners.
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>However, with only 1 Gig memory currently installed, every once in a while, one of the stations goes into a long "VFP Application NOT Responding". I argue that this maybe because the system is caching to disk, and thus causing the stations to hang up, but my colleague thinks there is another problem with the VFP Application or maybe a bug in VFP8.
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>Who is right?, and how much memory do you suggest for the above server ?
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>Thanks in advance