Determine running size of memtoleave area

Hi group,
it there an easy way to determine the size of the MemToLeave area on a
running instance?
I know this is caculated at startup as
[max worker threads] * 0.5MB + [-g Memory]
but we want to verify that the instance is using our -g setting.
TIA,
We use VMSTAT.EXE to monitor the total amount free and xp_memory_size (which
comes with SQL Litespeed) to monitor the max contiguous region. I can't
remember where we got vmstat from but I think it was probably from PSS.
HTH
Jasper Smith (SQL Server MVP)
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"Gurba" <gurbao@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi group,
> it there an easy way to determine the size of the MemToLeave area on a
> running instance?
> I know this is caculated at startup as
> [max worker threads] * 0.5MB + [-g Memory]
> but we want to verify that the instance is using our -g setting.
> TIA,
|||Will finding max contig help me?
We are experiencing this message from time to time:
2005-07-26 16:49:41.52 spid63 WARNING: Failed to reserve contiguous
memory of Size= 131072.
2005-07-26 16:49:41.63 spid63 Buffer Distribution: Stolen=17899
Free=5 Procedures=161541
Inram=0 Dirty=17995 Kept=0
I/O=0, Latched=1980, Other=138372
2005-07-26 16:49:41.63 spid63 Buffer Counts: Commited=337792 Target=
337792 Hashed=158347
InternalReservation=2266 ExternalReservation=3009 Min
Free=1024
2005-07-26 16:49:41.63 spid63 Procedure Cache: TotalProcs=35140
TotalPages=161541 InUsePages=108631
2005-07-26 16:49:41.63 spid63 Dynamic Memory Manager: Stolen=176976
OS Reserved=10416
OS Committed=9749
OS In Use=8822
Query Plan=171722 Optimizer=0
General=12434
Utilities=1151 Connection=263
2005-07-26 16:49:41.63 spid63 Global Memory Objects: Resource=7963
Locks=105
SQLCache=3311 Replication=4
LockBytes=2 ServerGlobal=56
Xact=93
2005-07-26 16:49:41.63 spid63 Query Memory Manager: Grants=3
Waiting=0 Maximum=163539 Available=158066
For all I know, I may find the size of the memtoleave area in these
numbers?
Regards,
"Jasper Smith" <jasper_smith9@.hotmail.com> wrote in
news:eY2UaZVkFHA.1048@.tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:

> We use VMSTAT.EXE to monitor the total amount free and xp_memory_size
> (which comes with SQL Litespeed) to monitor the max contiguous region.
> I can't remember where we got vmstat from but I think it was probably
> from PSS.
>
|||Indeed you can. Under dynamic memory manager you will find,
OS Reserved - Reserved for >64KB requests (This is memtoleave)
OS Committed - Memory that has been committed from memtoleave
OS In Use - Portion of OS Committed backing outstanding memory allocations
Check http://support.microsoft.com/?id=271624 for full reference.