SQL 2008 Memory Usage
- by Danilo Brambilla
I have a SQL Server 2008 (ver 10.0.1600) running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise server with 8 GB of physical ram. If I open Task Manager I can see on 'Physical Memory' section of 'Performance' tab that only 340 MB are Available of 8191 Total, but I can't see any process using such amount of memory. Please note SQL Server is memory limited to 6GB (Maximum Server Memory = 6000).
If I open Sysinternals Process Explorer, I can see sqlsrvr.exe process has:
Private Bytes: 227.000 K
Working Set: 140.000 K
Virtual Size: 8.762.000 K
What does this means? Is there any way to free up this memory for other process? Why Virtual Size figure as allocated memory? I thought that Virtual Size was 'reserved memory' only.