topic Re: No Active User and QVS.exe still gobbling up RAM in QlikView

No Active User and QVS.exe still gobbling up RAM

prees959 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hi,

We have a very hefty server with over 600GB Ram.

At the moment QVS.exe is using over 70% of this RAM and there are currently no active users .... Can anyone help as to why this may be happining

I have installed and run Governance Dashboard and although it is showing high RAM usage on a daily basis it doesn't give any insights as to what is causing this issue?

We have two quite large and complex applications :

1st: 1.8GB in size, over 120m rows and 35 tables

2nd: 4GB in size, over 200m rows and 40 tables

Any help appreciated,

Phil

EDIT : I have checked QVS Statistics and it is showing a number of open documents but no active users... Could these 'Open Documemts' be causing the RAM uptake?

Re: No Active User and QVS.exe still gobbling up RAM

ramyasaiqv — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 21:21:35 GMT

Qlik might be using the RAM for itself towards the cache. Based on the working limits (lower) set up qlik starts freeing up the cached memory once it’s reached lower limit. Ideally there should not be any issue. If you want to free the memory you can restart the server.

Re: No Active User and QVS.exe still gobbling up RAM

marcus_sommer — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 09:29:43 GMT

There is nothing wrong - it's the designed behaviour.

- Marcus

Re: No Active User and QVS.exe still gobbling up RAM

Chip_Matejowsky — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 18:35:48 GMT

QVS will use as much RAM as necessary and won't release it up to the working set limits as Ramya indicated. The default value for the Low Working set is 70%. You can confirm this in the QMC > System > Setup > QlikView Server > QVS@ > Performance tab. And, as Marcus stated, this is working as designed.

Have a look at the Qlik Support article QIX Engine Memory Management and CPU Utilization for more details.