Perfmon - process:page faults/sec

[Peter Karhatsu]

My question is, My perfmon counters reads anywhere between 0 and 1200 with the average being around 250 faults/second.
My concern is my memory max size being too large, I have 4gb ram, SQL reports usage at 2.9 GB, my max mem size is 3.9 gb, should I maybe set my SQL server to use a fixed memory size of 2.9 gb?
Thanks in advance

Pete Karhatsu

Copied from SWYNKs' article:

Process: Page Faults/sec
If this value is greater then 0 then the SQL Server process is producing soft page faults and as a result CPU overhead. Try setting the working set size value to be as close to the SQL Server's memory allocation.

[Peter Karhatsu]

Typo, actual max mem is 2 gb.


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Peter Karhatsu at 6/13/00 11:01:57 AM


My question is, My perfmon counters reads anywhere between 0 and 1200 with the average being around 250 faults/second.
My concern is my memory max size being too large, I have 4gb ram, SQL reports usage at 2.9 GB, my max mem size is 3.9 gb, should I maybe set my SQL server to use a fixed memory size of 2.9 gb?
Thanks in advance

Pete Karhatsu

Copied from SWYNKs' article:

Process: Page Faults/sec
If this value is greater then 0 then the SQL Server process is producing soft page faults and as a result CPU overhead. Try setting the working set size value to be as close to the SQL Server's memory allocation.