[Emerald] More fun than I'm allowed to have

David V. Brenner ( (no email) )
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 18:18:51 -0700

Just added 128 megs of RAM to my SQL box, for a total of 384.

Tried to double the memory setting from 131072 (128 megs) to 262144 (256
megs) in SQL Enterprise Manager. Also bumped the tempdb value from 32
(megs) to 40 (megs). The "MSSQLServer" service wouldn't start. After much
panicking, I found that I had to run sqlservr -c -f and kill the
SQLExecutive to even be able to run iSQL_W, at which point I was able to
"sp_configure memory, 131072" and "sp_configure tempdb, 32" to get things
running again.

Which brings me to this...

Any idea why 262144 would be a problem for the memory setting? It should
take a much larger number than even that, as far as I know. If there was
something wrong with the RAM physically, I would think it would have
manifested itself in a somewhat different problem (i.e., blue screen) than
simply preventing SQL (6.5) from starting up.

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David V. Brenner - dvb@cport.com
International Services Network Corporation
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