[dba-Tech] SBS 2008 performance

Gustav Brock Gustav at cactus.dk
Mon Jan 18 09:02:08 CST 2010


Hi Janet

Didn't you have SQL Server installed and running? It can eat - or rather reserve - close to all available memory just to have it on hand.

/gustav

>>> jerbach at gmail.com 18-01-2010 15:56 >>>
Mark -

Just as an update...As of this morning, virtual memory/physical memory usage
is pretty near 7 gb.  It's been that way all weekend.  I tried turning off
the services I could find that were related to SBS Monitoring, but that made
no difference in memory usage.  I'm going to investigate the possibility of
un-installing Monitoring altogether;  and then I'll probably have to look
into disabling other SBS 'standard-you-gotta-have-em' services as well.  It
sure looks to me like SBS 2008 is a resource hog by default, and that I'll
have to turn off quite a few things before I see any improvements.  We're
also looking at investing in a second server for our main sql server
application, so that should help a little.  In theory.

Janet

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Janet,
>
> I am not an expert, but I think it is high.  Most of the OS's that I run
> only use about 1 GB, and then if I have SQL Server it can often use another
> GB or even 1.5 GB.
>
> So what is using 9 GB of virtual memory, or even 4.9 of physical memory.
>
> To repeat what I may not have said so clearly in my earlier email, when I
> have a machine that is crawling, I usually expect it to be one thing that is
> killing the machine and when that is fixed, all comes back to normal.
>
> It sounds like you are getting closer.
>
> thanks
>
> Mark






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