SQL 2005 Not Using Memory
Jan 21, 2008Hi I am using SQL 2005 64 Enterprise edition with 30GB memory.
I have allowed SQL to use min 0 memory and maximum 20GB but sql is only showing it can use 100MB of memory
Anyone know the answer
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Can't Get SQL Server 2005 To Use More Memory
Sep 16, 2007Here'a a break down of what I've done so far.
* Windows 2003 32bit Enterprise with 10gb RAM
* SQL 2005 32bit Enterprise
* boot.ini - have added /3GB /PAE switches
* Confirmed which account SQL Server is running under and added that account to Local Policies/User Rights Assignment/Lock pages in memory
* Enabled AWE in SQL SERVER
* set minimum and maximum server memory to 9gb
* Rebooted.
Task manager says the following:
sqlservr.exe - 95MB usage * I know this is normal when using AWE right?
The actual physical memory used is 3.13GB and never goes higher. So this leads to believe that SQL is utilizing 3GB because of the /3GB switch, but it's not using the rest like it should be. I tried it without the /3GB switch and it only went up to about 2.1GB usage.
I've turned on performance monitor and SQL server target memory says 8.65 GB while the Total Server Memory says 2.45GB.
I've run:
EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options'
RECONFIGURE
GO
EXEC sp_configure 'awe enabled'
RECONFIGURE
GO
And it confirms that the running value for both is 1
Please help.
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2. I could do an in-place upgrade to Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2. Has anyone attempted an in-place upgrade? I have no applications
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QUESTION
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I needed to load some tables in memory on startup because of performance reasons.
I'm using "select * from <table>", but there are few questions:
1. How to pin already selected data in memory ? (DBCC PINTABLE doesn't work for 2005)
2. How to put index data in memory ? (do you read document(s) for advance memory management - index data caching ?)
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