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Page Life Expectancy

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Aluminum

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Jun 8, 2007
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My servers Page Life Expectancy is frequently dipping below 300. Does anyone know a good strategy for diagnosing this issue?
 
If your max page life expectancy is dipping below 300 it is good sign that you need more memory allocated to your sql server instance.

- Paul
- If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
 
It would typically start with buying more memory and installing it. Then telling the SQL Server to use more memory.

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000)
MCTS (SQL 2005 / Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Configuration / Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Configuration)
MCITP Database Administrator (SQL 2005) / Database Developer (SQL 2005)

--Anything is possible. All it takes is a little research. (Me)
[noevil]
 
24 gb of ram is on the server with AWE enables. Is there some configuration settings I can look into. Any additonal information would be helpfull.
 
Do you have the /3GB switch and /PAE switches in the boot.ini file?

How much memory is SQL configured to use?

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000)
MCTS (SQL 2005 / Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Configuration / Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Configuration)
MCITP Database Administrator (SQL 2005) / Database Developer (SQL 2005)

--Anything is possible. All it takes is a little research. (Me)
[noevil]
 
24575 Megs... Yes the switches are in the boot file.

Do you have any other suggestions?
 
How big is your database? I assume this is an OLTP database? How many users? Transactions per second?

What's your buffer hit ratio?

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000)
MCTS (SQL 2005 / Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Configuration / Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Configuration)
MCITP Database Administrator (SQL 2005) / Database Developer (SQL 2005)

--Anything is possible. All it takes is a little research. (Me)
[noevil]
 
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