[cfaussie] Microsoft SQL server CPU very high, close to 100% a lot of the time

2010-11-23 Thread BarryC
Hi, We have an issue currently where our Microsoft SQL server runs close to 100% CPU for a lot of the time. There also seems to be a lack of memory cache hits (we would expect a reasonable amount given the traffic for our site). Our website generates a lot of small queries (approximately 200odd

RE: [cfaussie] Microsoft SQL server CPU very high, close to 100% a lot of the time

2010-11-23 Thread Steve Onnis
I would say it is from running it on VMWare. I have never had good experiences running SQL server on VMWare. There just isn't the grunt there to do it. I started shifting my SQL servers to VMs and started having CPU issues so i moved them back to physical servers. -Original Message-

Re: [cfaussie] Microsoft SQL server CPU very high, close to 100% a lot of the time

2010-11-23 Thread Kai Koenig
What Steve says is def. contributing to it. Another thing I'd look into before moving it away from VMWare though would be the VMWare setup itself, e.g. assigned memory, giving it more CPU power etc. How's your disk IO looking on that VM? Cheers Kai On 24/11/2010, at 11:48 AM, Steve Onnis

Re: [cfaussie] Microsoft SQL server CPU very high, close to 100% a lot of the time

2010-11-23 Thread Joey Daly
We're running SQL Server 2005 quad core on VMWare, and it works fine without any problems. On 24 November 2010 09:48, Steve Onnis st...@cfcentral.com.au wrote: I would say it is from running it on VMWare. I have never had good experiences running SQL server on VMWare. There just isn't the

Re: [cfaussie] Microsoft SQL server CPU very high, close to 100% a lot of the time

2010-11-23 Thread Kym Kovan
On 24/11/2010 09:53, Kai Koenig wrote: What Steve says is def. contributing to it. Another thing I'd look into before moving it away from VMWare though would be the VMWare setup itself, e.g. assigned memory, giving it more CPU power etc. How's your disk IO looking on that VM? We use SQL2008