I think i have the same memory issue..

When i look at my memory of the sql server instance in Taskmanager, it says 64MB used. This never changes.

We have an active...

Ok thanks, very clear. My hunch to not use the /3gb was correct. I must say it's pretty unclear, i hope it's better with sql 2005

It's enterprise edition.

I don't have a HL7 DTS task but while browsing the internet i found the following: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/evaluation/hl7/default.asp 

When i'm correct you can put the incoming data straight into SQL 2000....

ok found it:

The 2 GB limit is per instance:

see:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=sql+server+instance+memory&hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=n%23ycYXWOEHA.3892%40cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl&rnum=8

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;274750&Product=sql2k