Memory unloading possible?

  • Hi there,

    I'm having problems with a process, which handles a huge amount of data. This data is financial info over 24 months. It takes hours to process 1 month, which is unacceptable, since the (monthly) process would take days, a week or more, to finish. We found out, that if we stop & start SQL Server(7) and process only a month at a time the process runs much faster for the first months. After a while it stalls and we're getting memoryproblems againm(page_iolatches and such). If we stop & start SQL Server again, we can do the next couple of months.

    Question: can I unload data in RAM without stopping & starting SQL Server? Or shouild I look at another solution? WOuld this problem still exists in SQL Server 2000?

    Machinespecs currently: Windows 4 NT, 1 Gb RAM, dual processor P4 2.8 Gh, fast disk RAID 5.

    Greetz,
    Hans Brouwer

  • Do check the following commands

    DBCC PROCCACHE, DBCC FreeProccache,

    dbcc dropcleanbuffers

    it might be usefull

    Jeswanth

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  • Which Service Pack you have? As far as I remember sp2 for SQL Server has memory issues....

    My 0.02 cents

  • SP 3

    visit http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/topdownloads.asp

    Jeswanth

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