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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398694 More actions · Answer 1

It's all managed through the buffer manager. It will remove older stuff from cache in order to support newer stuff.

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Grant Fritchey (1/16/2015)
It's all managed through the buffer manager. It will remove older stuff from cache in order to support newer stuff.

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I found this excerpt, where does this fit into Buffer Management and the Lazy Writer?

Can this be monitored?

The work of scanning the buffer pool, writing dirty pages, and populating the free buffer list

is primarily performed by the individual workers after they have scheduled an asynchronous

read and before the read is completed. The worker gets the address of a section of the buffer

pool containing 64 buffers from a central data structure in the SQL Server Database Engine.

Once the read has been initiated, the worker checks to see whether the free list is too small.

(Note that this process has consumed one or more pages of the list for its own read.) If so,

the worker searches for buffers to free up, examining all 64 buffers, regardless of how many

it actually finds to free up in that group of 64. If a write must be performed for a dirty buffer

in the scanned section, the write is also scheduled.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398694 More actions · Answer 3

There are a whole slew of performance monitor counters all dedicated to the Buffer Manager. That's the place I'd start.

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January 16, 2015 at 5:30 am

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