Re: Performance on XP

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From: StringFellow Hawk (Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NOSPAM)_at_(SPAMNOT)hotmail.com)
Date: 12/06/04


Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 19:54:54 -0500

In SQL Server Enterprise Manager, how did you configure memory on both -
dynamic or fixed - what did you allow min/max to be if dynamic or what did
you allow memory to be if fixed?

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"David Mohandas" <david_mohandas@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uEat8px2EHA.3376@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I am running our application on Windows XP SP1 and Windows 2000 and i see
a
> lot slower performance on XP than on 2000. XP machine has 1GB RAM and 2000
> machine has 768MB RAM. Our application uses SQL server 2000 SP3A. Our
> application on XP to run a process takes 3.5hrs and on 2000 the same
process
> runs in 1.5hrs.
>
> Looking at the task manager on XP the sqlservr.exe Mem usage is around
0.5GB
> and our application mem usage is 7MB. Wheareas on 2000 sqlservr.exe Mem
> usage is around 0.5GB and our application mem usage is around 50MB.
>
> I don't understand why in XP my application is not getting enough RAM,
> because i don't see all of the RAM being used (i.e) i don't see any other
> application in the process list that uses a lot of RAM other the sqlservr.
> But whereas the available physical memory is 4MB, i wondering where it all
> went away. Also i notice heavy page faults in XP and that is leading to
> under utilization of CPU which is causing the  performance degradation.
>
> Has anyone seen such a behaviour on XP?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>


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