ananda.murugesan (9/11/2012)
TotalServerMemoryMB - 3270.125000
Thank you. This confirms what was mentioned before. At present there are no indicators that anything out of the ordinary is occurring in terms of how much memory SQL Server is using on your server.
For the Lock page memory enable
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Lock Pages in Memory is a setting that can be set on 64-bit operating systems that essentially tell Windows not to swap out SQL Server memory to disk. By default, this setting is turned off on 64-bit systems,
Yes, that is correct, lpim is off by default but you have it turned on and you still have not told us why you enabled it.
for this reason enable LPIM in x64 operating system.
SQL service accounts can use a process to keep data in physical memory, preventing the system from paging the data to virtual memory on disk. also memory may boost performance when paging memory to disk is expected.
There is a great debate about this in the SQL Serevr community. Some prefer to enable lpim on x64 Windows Server 2008 R2 running SQL Server 2008 R2 by default, and others prefer (including myself) to leave lpim disabled unless the database server exhibits specific behavior that signals there may be a benefit to enabling lpim.
Here is a good primer on the debate and one of many articles and my own experience that helped shape my opinion: Great SQL Server Debates: Lock Pages in Memory (12 December 2011) by Jonathan Kehayias[/url]
When SQL Server approaches 7.5 GB do you start to see system instability or messages entering the SQL Server Error Log signifying the server is under memory pressure? If not then you should be happy with your server configuration. If so, please post those messages here.
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