Has tempdb grown since the last restart?

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Has tempdb grown since the last restart?

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November 19, 2012 at 11:54 pm

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BLOB EATER SSChampion Points: 14609 More actions · Answer 1

Can you use Extended Events to track TempDB growth? I have read Jonathan Kehayias's article on tracking database growth, I wonder if that can be applied to tempdb too?

p.s. Nice article, flows and reads well.

dineshvishe SSCrazy Points: 2308 More actions · Answer 2

tempdbtempdevN:\Tempdb\tempdb.mdf446.50719.19 10%272.69

tempdbtemplogN:\Tempdb\templog.ldf294.38294.38 50%0.00

can this data is proper ???

Caruncles Hall of Fame Points: 3299 More actions · Answer 3

Would timing-out errors be a symptom of improper TempDB settings? Especially, during peak times. We are in our busy season right now there is a lot of data entry and updating going on.

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james.johnson 22741 SSC Rookie Points: 31 More actions · Answer 4

When I tried to modify the size of the tempdb on my system the results suggested that I was unable to specify the size of something smaller than their current size. A conservative move to make their initial size large, like suggested by the author, would require me to schedule an outage of a production system.

Orlando Colamatteo SSC Guru Points: 182276 More actions · Answer 5

sql.com (11/20/2012)
Can you use Extended Events to track TempDB growth? I have read Jonathan Kehayias's article on tracking database growth, I wonder if that can be applied to tempdb too?
p.s. Nice article, flows and reads well.

Thanks. I haven't tried it myself but I cannot think of a reason why Extended Events could not be used. I think watching for event sqlserver.databases_log_file_size_changed with filter database_id = 2 so the session only watched tempdb would be where I would begin.

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dineshvishe (11/20/2012)
tempdbtempdevN:\Tempdb\tempdb.mdf446.50719.19 10%272.69
tempdbtemplogN:\Tempdb\templog.ldf294.38294.38 50%0.00
can this data is proper ???

It seems plausible. It appears tempdev has grown 5 times since the last restart, by 10% each time.

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Caruncles (11/20/2012)
Would timing-out errors be a symptom of improper TempDB settings? Especially, during peak times. We are in our busy season right now there is a lot of data entry and updating going on.

It could, in extreme conditions. I have seen it happen during peak times where the log file was already very large, it was still set at default to grow at 10% and an autogrow was invoked causing the log file to need to grow by many gigabytes. Log files must be zero-initialized and on an already busy I/O subsystem a large autogrow operation can be quite disruptive. What were the results from the query in the article on your system?

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james.johnson 22741 (11/20/2012)
When I tried to modify the size of the tempdb on my system the results suggested that I was unable to specify the size of something smaller than their current size. A conservative move to make their initial size large, like suggested by the author, would require me to schedule an outage of a production system.

Modifying the size of tempdb to something larger then their current size does not require a restart, i.e. a grow operation will occur immediately upon running the ALTER DATABASE statement. From the error message you posted it sounds as if you are trying to set the value to something smaller than the current size. What were the results of the query in the article on your system and what is the ALTER DATABASE statement you are trying to run?

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Caruncles Hall of Fame Points: 3299 More actions · Answer 9

Here are the results. Looks like quite a difference from the intital settings.

namedb_filename

tempdbtempdev

tempdbtemplog initial_size_MBactual_size_MBauto_grow_settingchange_in_MB_since_restart

8.00541.31 10%533.31

0.5074.94 10%74.44

Wallace Houston
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Caruncles (11/20/2012)
Here are the results. Looks like quite a difference from the intital settings.
namedb_filename
tempdbtempdev
tempdbtemplog initial_size_MBactual_size_MBauto_grow_settingchange_in_MB_since_restart
8.00541.3110%533.31
0.5074.9410%74.44

Thanks for posting back. That's actually not too terrible. Your last data file autogrow was by ~50MB which can take several seconds on a slow and overloaded I/O subsystem if instant initialization is not enabled, however hopefully not so overloaded as to approach a common timeout periods of 30 seconds. That said, I think you will want to start thinking about adjusting your initial tempdb file sizes since chances are very good that your instance needs additional space over 8MB for data and .5MB for log. For autogrow, personally I prefer to have my files grow by MB and not by percent because growth activity is more predictable in terms of how long it will take and how large the file may grow if a runaway process happens to crop up.

Chances are you can still see when your files autogrew, buy how many megabytes and how long each autogrow operation took by looking in the default trace. The default trace is a sliding window of activity but chances are your most recent autogrow events will still be there. See the article by Aaron Bertrand in the References section of the article for how to read the default trace looking for autogrow events.

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Caruncles Hall of Fame Points: 3299 More actions · Answer 11

ThanX SSCarpal Tunnel. I felt like some adjustment was called for, and BTW- My mouse wrist and I totally relate to the "carpal tunnel"!

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December 24, 2012 at 11:59 am

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Nice article