Setting: Windows 2008 R2, Sql 2008, SP3. 64GB RAM. Sql Memory usage capped at 40GB for the datawarehouse server.
While processing a large amount of data Sql uses up to its cap of 40GB. Hours after the jobs has ended, and "System Idle Process" is 99%, sql still holds on to this memory. (It hasn't released it.) Is this a bug, a feature, or something we can control?
TIA,
edm2
PS. Reading in Resource Monitorfor sqlserver.exe
Commit(KB) 43,414,448
Working Set (KB) 43,103,880
Shareable (KB) 44,172
Private (KB) 43,059,708
"78% Used Physical Memory" -- on a machine that is doing "nothing" in the usual sense.
