DBCC 802 error

  • Hello guys,

    one of my customer reported 802 error in his server. Could you help me how to track circumstances leading to this error?

    Thank you

  • Hi,

    Check the memory status of the server.

  • Hello,

    could you elaborate? The instance is hosted on VMware hypervisor. I talked to the guy on the phone and asked him some basics but all I was able to get from him was:

    Max Server Memory option is set

    There is only one instance on that VM

    It happens during nightly ETL loads - about once per month or two

    I will know more as I see the instance. I'm just asking where would you suggest me to look first.

    First I thought about setting alert for 802 error to execute job which would dump information about running jobs and some DMVs.

    What do you think?

  • Error 802 is "Insufficient memory in the buffer pool", which suggests there's insufficient memory.

    Probably too much done in that job and not enough memory allocated (or incorrect VM settings)

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  • Thank you all very much for your feedback. I have deployed Management Data Warehouse to the instance plus added custom collector for following counters to get more information about the instance:

    Lazy writes/sec

    Checkpoint/sec

    Free List stalls/sec

    Free Pages/sec

    Page Writes/sec

    Page Reads/sec

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