Good day. Here is my story.
I am a noobie. Please be gentle. :-)
RAMMap says that AWE is chewing up most of the memory.
The machine is a virtual computer (free ESXi) with Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012.
The VM has 16GB RAM total with 10GB allocated to the SQL Server.
Minimum server memory is set to 0MB, maximum server memory is set to 5120MB.
Locked Pages in Memory is not defined in the Local Policy (or in the Domain GPO if that matters).
There is also an install of Symantec Backup Exec on this computer which uses SQL Server 2005. All services to do with Backup Exec and its associated SQL server instance are disabled. However, if I start this SQL server instance and look, AWE is not checked.
If I reboot the SQL Server AWE shows just over 500MB usage but over the next 24 hours this will grow to over 4GB.
I have Googled for several hours but have not found a solution.
Thanks for your time, folks,
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David Chapman
dchapman@victoriataxi.com