Configuring 2GB RAM For SQL

Dear all

Problem and symptoms

We have recently added 1GB Ram to our systems and now we are trying to optimally configure 2GB of RAM for SS6.5 SP4 and we are getting the fllowing error INFREQUENTLY

"Not enough memory for pss allocation"

We have to restart the SQL server/ (recover databases) to get out of this. Since it is a heavily loaded production environment you can imagine the impact!!.

SPECS

OS-- NT4/sp3
H/W -- Dual Processor Alpha 4100
MEM -- 2GB
SQL PArameters:
memory--819200
Worker Threads -- 255
Proc cache -- 12%

Work done so far

There is a recommendation to reduce the memory or stack size parameters ref:Q160683!!

Question

1. I would like to know if anyone has got around a similar problem, and how. 2. As in NT Virtual Memory Manager AUTOMATICALLY brokers the allocation of physical memory between the requesting applications (e.g. sqlsrvr.exe) and the page file and no application can write directly to RAM, what does the memory parameter in SQL config control? Also then how is the above KB article relevant?

I look forward to your response

Thanks and regards

Arun