Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Memory pressure while running Perfmon?

I ran a perfmon trace with Memory counters (part of periodic monitoring
effort). I noticed that the SQL Server:Buffer Manager, Free pages
counter had dipped to 317, 203, etc (nromal values> 10000). The first
time this happened today coincided with the time I started the Perfmon
trace (run from another server and inserted into a DB on this second
server).
Does Perfmon cause Memory pressure on the server whose counters it is
capturing - even if it isn't running on that server?
Thanks.<smithabreddy@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I ran a perfmon trace with Memory counters (part of periodic monitoring
> effort). I noticed that the SQL Server:Buffer Manager, Free pages
> counter had dipped to 317, 203, etc (nromal values> 10000). The first
> time this happened today coincided with the time I started the Perfmon
> trace (run from another server and inserted into a DB on this second
> server).
> Does Perfmon cause Memory pressure on the server whose counters it is
> capturing - even if it isn't running on that server?
>
No. It does not.
David

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