[MarkL]

I'm not a SQL guy, but my team is responsible for the server hardware, and it seems that nobody, including Microsoft can figure out the memory leak problems we're having on 64bit Win2k3 and 64bit SQL2k5. We've got an HP DL386 with dual Opterons and 32GB of RAM, and the system is constantly running out of RAM. While similar databases are running on 32bit platforms with 12GB of RAM.

ARGH!!!!!

Of course the software guys are saying that obviously 32GB of RAM isn't enough... As if you could cure a memory leak by adding memory!

Mark

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

We've had a lot of cases where our software has been blamed for memory leaks on platforms as you describe.

In each case, our Engineering team has been able to find that the problem is not related to our software but excessive calls to one process or another. In only one case did we find that one piece of our software was making use of some libraries and not releasing memory afterwards. That was fixed but the memory leak issues with MS software keep a comin'.