Question : High Page file usage on SQL Server 2005

I have a production server that's running on Windows 2003 Enterpise x64 bit edition, with SQL Server 2005 x64 bit edition on it. I have the page filing setup on a seperate partition and is set to 1.5 times the size of the memory on the machine. For some reason the page file usage is extremely high (28gb) and the available memory drops down to only 500mb. When I check the processes tab I only see sqlserver.exe using 200mb of RAM. I rebooted the server yesterday and that brought it back down, but now it's back up again this morning. I don't understand what the problem is??

Answer : High Page file usage on SQL Server 2005

You're getting these numbers from task manager?  I would think add the virtual memory column and show all processes would indicate the memory hog.  We had a couple sql boxes that seemed like sql server was reluctant to yield memory to the OS while set on autopilot, so the OS was causing heavy paging when something else ran.  Just changing the sql limit to a few GB less than the physical memory helped in that case.
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