I have a development vm which is running sql server as well as some other apps for my stack, and I found that the other apps are performing awfully. After doing some digging, SQL Server was hogging the memory. After a quick web search I discovered that by default, it will consume as much memory as it can in order to cache data and give it back to the system as other apps request it, but this process often doesn’t happen fast enough, apparently my situation is a common problem.
There however is a way to limit the memory SQL Server is allowed to have. My question is, how should I set this limit. Obviously I’m going to need to do some guess and check, but is there an absolute minimum threshhold? Any recommendations are appreciated.
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I’ll note that out developer machines have 2 gigs of memory so I’d like to be able to run the vm on 768 mb or less if possible. This vm will be only used for local dev and testing , so the load will be very minimal. After code has been tested locally it goes to another environment where the SQL server box is dedicated. What I’m really looking for here is recommendations on minimums
Since this is a development environment, I agree with Greg, just use trial and error. It’s not that crucial to get it perfectly right.
But if you do a lot of work in the VM, why not give it at least half of the 2GB?