Page life expectancy low

  • What other counter are good to check with PLE being this low.

    I know my Ram is set to low. only 8 gigs max on a 200 gig server?go figure

    I just need to prove it, and I could not explain the hit ratio...although my que length time are high, % Disk read time is pegged.

    end of the day I still need more proof for the manager...to make a change?

    thanks

  • if anyone is woundering....here is a great link to the answer.

    This explains buffer cache hit ratio well!

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/a_sql_tracker/archive/2010/03/16/high-buffer-cache-hit-ratio-low-page-life-expectancy.aspx

  • From the sounds of things, I'd be looking at the queries more than I'd be worrying about the amount of memory. Yes, you're hitting the cache & the buffer hard, but why? I'll bet you've got a lot of recompiles and the queries involve lots of scans. 8gb isn't lots of memory, but it's not a radically small amount either, especially for a system that's only 200gb of storage. Doubling the amount of memory isn't going to help much if your procs are the cause of the problem.

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