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 SQL won't use over 2.7GB on 8GB server

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j0nx
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4 Posts

Posted - 2007-04-07 : 15:04:04
First of all, here is the setup.

Hardware:
Dell Quad Xeon 2.7ghz
8 GB ram

Software:
Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
Sql 2000 Enterprise Sp3

Boot.ini Settings:
/PAE /3GB

Sql Settings:
AWE = 1
Max server memory = 7000 (fixed)

Database sizes:
150GB
220GB

With these settings, sqlserver.exe will use only 2.7GB of memory with over 4GB of memory left available to the server (the server properly reports 8GB total). Perfmon "sqlserver:total server memory" confirms this. If I take out the /3GB switch in boot.ini, sqlserver will only use 1.7GB. These are hard limits as SQL never scales past these amounts even under load for several days. What am I missing??

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2007-04-07 : 16:35:35
Dupe http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=81791


Peter Larsson
Helsingborg, Sweden
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