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Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/01/75 11:25
Raziq Shekha (raziq_shekha@anadarko.com) writes:
> How can I tell how much memory SQL Server is using on a server. On
> Windows 2000, whenever I go to Task manager/processes/memory usage SQL
> Server seems to be showing 1,744,124K. On all of my servers with
> various size, usage of databases, all of them show SQL Server to be
> using about the same amount of memory. Can someone explain this to me?
> Shouldn't it use more for larger databases, heavy hitting databases?
So how much memory is available on these boxes? Which edition of SQL
Server are they running?
SQL Server is designed to grab as much memory there is available, so if
these servers have 2GB of memory, it is very likely that all servers
by time reach this level. (The rest is left to the Operating System.(
> Also, I normally check Dynamically configure SQL Server memory and put
> the maximum threshold to a little bit less than the max on the server.
Actually, there is no reason to set any limit at all, unless there
are other apps on the machine. If you do this setting, add more memory,
and forget the setting, the new memory will not be used.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/productdoc/2000/books.asp
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