Thanks Ken, that pretty much it. I am just trying to find some type of performance marker I can use to justify the move to std if the memory is in fact the issue. Is their a counter or such that will show that constantly being pegged out, or some type of hard memory event showing the limitation?
Yes it does perform better for a period of time after a reboot. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outgoing SQL Express I think what Greg is saying is that SQL Server Express edition is limited to using 1GB of RAM, and it's constantly using that, so it running into a bottleneck WRT to being able to cache data. Cheers Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2008 6:49 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Outgoing SQL Express > > What is the CRM VM configured with for RAM? If SQL is taking up 1.2 to > 1.5GB of RAM, it won't give that back to the OS unless it's under some > pretty extreme pressure, even if SQL itself doesn't need it. It could > be > that your CRM app needs to use RAM outside of SQL and doesn't have > enough - > depending on how much RAM the VM itself has available to it and also > your > min/max memory settings in SQL. Just a thought. > > - Andy O. > ________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:03 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Outgoing SQL Express > > Sorry, over the past 3 months the usage on this application has grown > significantly. Its their CRM app. The SQL server always is pegging > 1.2 to > 1.5 Gb of memory. Since its physically limited to 1GB of buffered > memory I > am thinking that perhaps its bottle necking there. The DB is sitting > on a > ISCSI Netapp box that is basically just a file server, for a 10 office > network running Exchange and SQL. There are 12 drives in the array and > the > monitors on it are not showing any IO bottlenecks. > > The servers are sitting on a ESX box running W2k3 Sp2 Image. Nothing > else > is really slow at all, just the CRM app and only when are all actively > working in it. 10 users.. > > I am looking for some type of numbers of reporting that can justify > purchasing SQL 2005 Std and possible some more Ram for ESX to throw > another > VM up. Does that help?? > > Thanks > > Greg > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:50 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Outgoing SQL Express > > Tell us how you have reached that conclusion. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith > MCSE/Exchange MVP > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:43 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Outgoing SQL Express > > Can anyone recommend how to determine if we have outgrown SQL express. > We > have not outgrown the DB size, but I think the single processor and > memory > usage is slowing down processing? Any tips? > > Thanks > > Greg > > > > > > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
