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Hi Folks,
I got this weird issue on sql server.
I am running window 2008 r2 enterprise 64 bit with 8 gb of ram and running SQL Server 2008 10.0.4000 64 bit standard edition. The maxium server memory is set at 5 gbs. When I look at task manager the sql server process's working set barely gets anymore than this setting. This is a dedicated sql machine.
Anyway occasionally the avialable memory on the machine gets below 200mb (97% usage). I am unsure why as the sql process working set has barely changed, at the low memory time. The rest of the processes in task manager shown would not make up more the 100-200 mbs. I am guessing it has something to do with the o.s. but using more than 2.5gb for the o.s. seems not right to me.
I did a sql trace and looked at the logical reads. If the problem was caused by a particular query I would have thought that, when the query was finished the memory would be relieved. What I seem to be seeing is Memory does get relieved (back to about 1-1.5 gb avialable memory) but the trace shows no queries that has been run for the duration of the low memory period and also the queries do not show massive logical reads at the time the memory is relieved.
Hope I make sense - please help!
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Don't use Task Manager to check SQL's memory. It can be completely wrong.
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The issue is related to SQL SERVER Performance issue for sure
Increasing memory is one of the best ways to improve SQL Server performance
because more data can be cached in memory.
You can check you memory usage by using storage management for SQL related tools also
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djordan 4543 (12/18/2012) Hi Folks,
I got this weird issue on sql server.
I am running window 2008 r2 enterprise 64 bit with 8 gb of ram and running SQL Server 2008 10.0.4000 64 bit standard edition. The maxium server memory is set at 5 gbs. When I look at task manager the sql server process's working set barely gets anymore than this setting. This is a dedicated sql machine.
Anyway occasionally the avialable memory on the machine gets below 200mb (97% usage). I am unsure why as the sql process working set has barely changed, at the low memory time. The rest of the processes in task manager shown would not make up more the 100-200 mbs. I am guessing it has something to do with the o.s. but using more than 2.5gb for the o.s. seems not right to me.
I did a sql trace and looked at the logical reads. If the problem was caused by a particular query I would have thought that, when the query was finished the memory would be relieved. What I seem to be seeing is Memory does get relieved (back to about 1-1.5 gb avialable memory) but the trace shows no queries that has been run for the duration of the low memory period and also the queries do not show massive logical reads at the time the memory is relieved.
Hope I make sense - please help!
Hi,
As a matter of interest, do you have SCOM monitoring your server? Also, has an anti-virus package been deployed on this server?
Anna
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You need to check anti-virus software or get the server guys involved if this is a VM
Regards
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thanks guys,
would perfmon be betterfor checking this?
SCOM is not monitoring this server (wish it was)
Symantec endpoint protection is our av program there is a full scan every monday morning at 5am.
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I have just been monitoring the all processes working set in performance monitor for a few hours. There has been a couple of times where memory has been upto 97% utilization but the working set memory does not seem to be budging.
Is there anything else I can do to diagnose this?
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thanks - I think I might be getting closer.. how do I check that?
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djordan 4543 (12/18/2012) thanks - I think I might be getting closer.. how do I check that?
--Bpool stats select (bpool_committed * 8192)/ (1024*1024) as bpool_committed_mb , (cast(bpool_commit_target as bigint) * 8192) / (1024*1024) as bpool_target_mb, (bpool_visible * 8192) / (1024*1024) as bpool_visible_mb from sys.dm_os_sys_info go -- Get me physical RAM installed -- and size of user VAS select physical_memory_in_bytes/(1024*1024) as phys_mem_mb, virtual_memory_in_bytes/(1024*1024) as user_virtual_address_space_size from sys.dm_os_sys_info go -- -- Get me other information about system memory -- select total_physical_memory_kb/(1024) as phys_mem_mb, available_physical_memory_kb/(1024) as avail_phys_mem_mb, system_cache_kb/(1024) as sys_cache_mb, (kernel_paged_pool_kb+kernel_nonpaged_pool_kb)/(1024) as kernel_pool_mb, total_page_file_kb/(1024) as total_virtual_memory_mb, available_page_file_kb/(1024) as available_virtual_memory_mb, system_memory_state_desc from sys.dm_os_sys_memory go -- Get me memory information about SQLSERVR.EXE process -- GetMemoryProcessInfo() API used for this -- physical_memory_in_use_kb select physical_memory_in_use_kb/(1024) as sql_physmem_inuse_mb, locked_page_allocations_kb/(1024) as awe_memory_mb, total_virtual_address_space_kb/(1024) as max_vas_mb, virtual_address_space_committed_kb/(1024) as sql_committed_mb, memory_utilization_percentage as working_set_percentage, virtual_address_space_available_kb/(1024) as vas_available_mb, process_physical_memory_low as is_there_external_pressure, process_virtual_memory_low as is_there_vas_pressure from sys.dm_os_process_memory go select * from sys.dm_os_ring_buffers where ring_buffer_type like 'RING_BUFFER_RESOURCE%' go select memory_node_id as node, virtual_address_space_reserved_kb/(1024) as VAS_reserved_mb, virtual_address_space_committed_kb/(1024) as virtual_committed_mb, locked_page_allocations_kb/(1024) as locked_pages_mb, single_pages_kb/(1024) as single_pages_mb, multi_pages_kb/(1024) as multi_pages_mb, shared_memory_committed_kb/(1024) as shared_memory_mb from sys.dm_os_memory_nodes where memory_node_id != 64 go with vasummary(Size,reserved,free) as ( select size = vadump.size, reserved = SUM(case(convert(int, vadump.base) ^ 0) when 0 then 0 else 1 end), free = SUM(case(convert(int, vadump.base) ^ 0x0) when 0 then 1 else 0 end) from (select CONVERT(varbinary, sum(region_size_in_bytes)) as size, region_allocation_base_address as base from sys.dm_os_virtual_address_dump where region_allocation_base_address <> 0x0 group by region_allocation_base_address UNION( select CONVERT(varbinary, region_size_in_bytes), region_allocation_base_address from sys.dm_os_virtual_address_dump where region_allocation_base_address = 0x0) ) as vadump group by size) select * from vasummary go -- Get me all clerks that take some memory -- select * from sys.dm_os_memory_clerks where (single_pages_kb > 0) or (multi_pages_kb > 0) or (virtual_memory_committed_kb > 0) go -- Get me stolen pages -- select (SUM(single_pages_kb)*1024)/8192 as total_stolen_pages from sys.dm_os_memory_clerks go -- Breakdown clerks with stolen pages select type, name, sum((single_pages_kb*1024)/8192) as stolen_pages from sys.dm_os_memory_clerks where single_pages_kb > 0 group by type, name order by stolen_pages desc go -- Get me the total amount of memory consumed by multi_page consumers -- select SUM(multi_pages_kb)/1024 as total_multi_pages_mb from sys.dm_os_memory_clerks go -- What about multi_page consumers -- select type, name, sum(multi_pages_kb)/1024 as multi_pages_mb from sys.dm_os_memory_clerks where multi_pages_kb > 0 group by type, name order by multi_pages_mb desc go -- Let's now get the total consumption of virtual allocator -- select SUM(virtual_memory_committed_kb)/1024 as total_virtual_mem_mb from sys.dm_os_memory_clerks go -- Breakdown the clerks who use virtual allocator -- select type, name, sum(virtual_memory_committed_kb)/1024 as virtual_mem_mb from sys.dm_os_memory_clerks where virtual_memory_committed_kb > 0 group by type, name order by virtual_mem_mb desc go -- Is anyone using AWE allocator? -- select SUM(awe_allocated_kb)/1024 as total_awe_allocated_mb from sys.dm_os_memory_clerks go -- Who is the AWE user? -- select type, name, sum(awe_allocated_kb)/1024 as awe_allocated_mb from sys.dm_os_memory_clerks where awe_allocated_kb > 0 group by type, name order by awe_allocated_mb desc go -- What is the total memory used by the clerks? -- select (sum(multi_pages_kb)+ SUM(virtual_memory_committed_kb)+ SUM(awe_allocated_kb))/1024 from sys.dm_os_memory_clerks go -- -- Does this sync up with what the node thinks? -- select SUM(virtual_address_space_committed_kb)/1024 as total_node_virtual_memory_mb, SUM(locked_page_allocations_kb)/1024 as total_awe_memory_mb, SUM(single_pages_kb)/1024 as total_single_pages_mb, SUM(multi_pages_kb)/1024 as total_multi_pages_mb from sys.dm_os_memory_nodes where memory_node_id != 64 go -- -- Total memory used by SQL Server through SQLOS memory nodes -- including DAC node -- What takes up the rest of the space? select (SUM(virtual_address_space_committed_kb)+ SUM(locked_page_allocations_kb)+ SUM(multi_pages_kb))/1024 as total_sql_memusage_mb from sys.dm_os_memory_nodes go -- -- Who are the biggest cache stores? select name, type, (SUM(single_pages_kb)+SUM(multi_pages_kb))/1024 as cache_size_mb from sys.dm_os_memory_cache_counters where type like 'CACHESTORE%' group by name, type order by cache_size_mb desc go -- -- Who are the biggest user stores? select name, type, (SUM(single_pages_kb)+SUM(multi_pages_kb))/1024 as cache_size_mb from sys.dm_os_memory_cache_counters where type like 'USERSTORE%' group by name, type order by cache_size_mb desc go -- -- Who are the biggest object stores? select name, type, (SUM(single_pages_kb)+SUM(multi_pages_kb))/1024 as cache_size_mb from sys.dm_os_memory_clerks where type like 'OBJECTSTORE%' group by name, type order by cache_size_mb desc go select mc.type, mo.type from sys.dm_os_memory_clerks mc join sys.dm_os_memory_objects mo on mc.page_allocator_address = mo.page_allocator_address group by mc.type, mo.type order by mc.type, mo.type go
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