sql server high memory usage

Okay so i have a physical server i am trying to replace with a virtual server. Its doing a large load process every night, about 190GB on one disk.

The VM is:

On vSphere 4.1 ESXi

O/S is Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

SQL version is SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.

4 vCpus

Now 20GB of memory

Disks assigned to this virtual are all seperate LUNs except for the O/S which is on a shared LUN which is not busy. So 1 LUN/Datastore per 'disk drive on this SQL virtual. Data/Log/TempDB/Backup are on their own LUNs.

All the recommended exclusions are in place for McAfee on a SQL Server.

ESXi 4.1 Enterprise host is not overcommitted. Has 4 x 6core 2.6Ghz AMD processors. BL685c G6 and 128GB of memory. Almost nothing else is running at the time i am testing this load and host is not overcommited or stressed or anywhere near it.

SQLServer process shows 127,236K Working Set and 130,040K Peak working set and memory Private working set 88,828k and Commit Size of 302,792k.

It seems when i check the memory usage in task manager it doesn't show much. In Windows 2003 X64 in would show the GB being used, like 8GB right in task manager. But i don't see that in Windows 2008 R2 task manager. I downloaded SysInternals and it shows the memory on the Windows 2008 r2 box as 15Gb of AWE memory. How can this be? The case is th

Hi i am editing a stored procedure using the SSMS (I have SQL Server 2008 SP1 - Windows 2003 Server Standard). At the begining everything is ok, but around of 3 or 4 minutes of work the ssms is becoming to slow, I open the Task Manager and I see that the process SSMS.exe is using 1.2GB of RAM Memory. I have open just one script (The stored procedure that I'm editing) but the script isnt running only editing. I dont understand that high memory because i'm not retreiving data of any query and im not running any thing on my ssms. Take a look of my task manager http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/ab319/jacarmonaro/highMemory.jpg

Other thing: When I minimize the ssms window the smss.exe process come back to a normal RAM memory usage.

Please any help??

Hello.

My name is Johnathan and I work as an asp.net web devoloper.

My company is starting to transfer from classic asp to asp.net 4.0 in our websites. During the transition I have encountred a few issues:

1. It seems that asp.net uses a lot more memory then classic asp on the server that hosts the websites. Is that true, and if so how can I minimize the memory usage?
2. Does asp.net 4 transitiond out of the beta phase? I have a website that is built in the asp.net 4.0 technology that is running smooth on the localhost, but on the server sometimes it doesn't connect to the database. Does this mean it is the host provider's fault or is it something in the code? (here is the website: http://www.sospets2.co.cc/)

Thanks alot and have a nice day!

Johnathan

Hi i am editing a stored procedure using the SSMS (I have SQL Server 2008 SP1 - Windows 2003 Server Standard). At the begining everything is ok, but around of 3 or 4 minutes of work the ssms is becoming to slow, I open the Task Manager and I see that the process SSMS.exe is using 1.2GB of RAM Memory. I have open just one script (The stored procedure that I'm editing) but the script isnt running only editing. I dont understand that high memory because i'm not retreiving data of any query and im not running any thing on my ssms. Take a look of my task manager http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/ab319/jacarmonaro/highMemory.jpg

Other thing: When I minimize the ssms window the smss.exe process come back to a normal RAM memory usage.

Please any help??

Hi,

in one of our SiteCollections we cannot start den Usage Report. It says "Server Out of Memory". We have lot of SiteCollections and it happens only in this one. Fyi: We have 16GB RAM.

Any Ideas? Thanks alot..

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