memory used by sqlservr

Hi,
My sql server is running on a Windows 2000 server with 2G physical memory
machine and I'm looking at the private-bytes performance counter for
sqlservr process and it's taking 1.8G. Is that something I should be
concerned about? I assume that sqlserver can be smart in taking most
possible available memory - so that would explain it. But how do I know when
I should be concerned - in the case 1.8 is the actual minimum it needs to
run efficiently (constantly swapping memory with page file is not efficient
of course).
In another word, how do I know when to start investing in more hardware for
my sql server?
thanks!Have a look at
INF: SQL Server Memory Usage
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q321363
http://www.mssqlserver.com/faq/troubleshooting-memoryleak.asp
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Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
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"Zen" <zen@.nononospam.com> wrote in message news:uolOKk9YGHA.4688@.TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> My sql server is running on a Windows 2000 server with 2G physical memory
> machine and I'm looking at the private-bytes performance counter for
> sqlservr process and it's taking 1.8G. Is that something I should be
> concerned about? I assume that sqlserver can be smart in taking most
> possible available memory - so that would explain it. But how do I know when
> I should be concerned - in the case 1.8 is the actual minimum it needs to
> run efficiently (constantly swapping memory with page file is not efficient
> of course).
> In another word, how do I know when to start investing in more hardware for
> my sql server?
> thanks!
>