RAMMap

You can get an analysis of how your Windows operating system's RAM is being used by downloading and installing RAMMap, a free program available here.

As you can see it breaks down how much RAM is being used by the Kernel (the core of the operating system, which loads first during start up and controls the rest of the system); Mapped Files (files which are assigned memory byte for byte in order to increase performance); Page Table (used to map the virtual address that accessing processes use to get the actual physical address of data - which can be dispersed); Process Private (memory that isn't shared amongst processes); and Paged & NonPage Pool (pool data is kept ready to use, rather than being acquired when it's requested, - paged data may come from a secondary source.)

If you click on the Priority Summary you can see how much memory pressure your system in under. If there is a lot of re-purposed memory with a priority between 5 and 7, there will be significant memory pressure on the system. Memory pressure is a better way of measuring how muchstress your system is under than how much free RAM is available, since keeping more than a few MB of RAM is wasteful.

Windows Event Viewer

In Windows 7 if you to Start and type in 'Event Viewer', an application will launch that will allow you to track all login attempts to your PC.

In the Event Viewer menu list, select Windows Log and expand the folder tree. Select security. This will show you a log of events on your PC, and 'Date and Time' field will allow you to easily tell whenever someone has had your PC on.

Note that you may see entries with the Task Category of 'Logon' and with a note of 'An account was successfully logged on' on the General tab in the pane at the bottom, even when the someone has not successfully logged on and entered the correct password to access the system.

If you click on the 'System' icon in the tree, and scroll to find 'Error' level records, you'll be able to find notes reading, "currently configured password due to the following error: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password." on the general tab. A good way to pinpoint when an unauthorized person was trying to access your PC.

How to find the number of cores on your computer or server

You can find the number of cores your computer or server has by going to Start, and typing in msinfo32 to activity the system information utility. In the System Summary scroll down to the entry for the Processor and this should indicate the number of cores.

Keep in mind that the number of Agents installed on a Relativity server can't exceed the number of cores. Relativity agents work in the background to complete user initiated jobs. For example, it's possible to add more worker OCR agents to complete an OCR job - just don't exceed the number of server cores!