Hi,

I did mention the current, production server is a VM. However, the new server - not yet in production and the subject of this post - is a physical box with real, physical sticks of SDRAM DIMMS. I have confirmed, using several different methods, including Performance Monitor (eg. the counter "Available MBytes"), that over 29GB of RAM is available.

Is there a specific counter called "Total Server Memory", if so can you tell me under which Performance Counter it is hiding?

I will reduce the Max Server Memory as you suggest; but I can't see that it will help here - I currently have 3.5GB committed and 29GB free RAM....

Andy