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Fidel Rodriguez

Posted Wednesday, February 24, 2010 12:21 AM

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Hmm... I think the number you're looking for will be based on the SLA / user experience you're bound to deliver. I also think that the exact number you're looking for is dynamic in nature as it will change over time as the database grows. Once you determine the level of performance you want to deliver---and can meet that given the hardware you have, allocate your resources such that you meet your goals. If you can exceed them, perhaps you can do so until the spare resources are needed by other databases seeking a home. Use the page life, query response, cache hit ratio and other metrics listed earlier along with execution plans to find out what you're working with.
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Posted Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:37 AM

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mem settings
• If server memory is <= 3 GB, set min memory to 1 GB, and max memory to server less 512 MB.
• If server memory is > 3 GB, settings depend on the server platform (32-bit or 64-bit), presence of /3 GB in the boot.ini and on usage of AWE.
• For servers on 64-bit platform AWE is not required, and min memory should be server memory less 2 GB, max memory – server memory less 1 GB.
• On 32-bit platform with AWE : min memory and max memory should be server memory less 1 GB; without AWE – if /3 GB switch is not used, max memory = 2 GB, with the switch it is 3 GB (with min memory 1 GB less than that).

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Tim Weintz

Posted Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:39 AM

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1. Are both builds of SQL the same?
2. Do the execution plans look the same?
3. How are you comparing response times between the two systems?

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Nicholas Cain

Posted Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:54 AM

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BaldingLoopMan (2/24/2010)

If you can I would leave at least 3GB for the OS in a 64bit system. Things like replication/connections/third party items all take up pieces of that memory space. I've run into quite a few issues as regards paging when not leaving plenty of room.

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Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2013 1:47 AM

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Yeah you should check the actual query plan.
One more thing maybe you should check the amount of IO or scanning actually happened using Set statistics io on then execute your query or sp.

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ScottPletcher

Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2013 10:16 AM

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Is the "MS Dynamics Navision ERP" application running on the same box as SQL Server in prod?

If so, I'd lower the fixed memory for SQL considerably.

Even if not, I'd still lower it to at least 96G (98304MB); at 128G, Windows itself needs some RAM to manage the other RAM.

The only non-memoty things that would normally ever slow it that much is:

1) I/O issues
2) tempdb issues.

So I suggest verifying those first before looking at other things.

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Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2013 11:07 AM

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Please note: 3 year old thread

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