Hello,
I am using sql server 2012 SE on windows 2012 data center edition and it is a virtual machine. I have a quick question on SQL Server Memory. On Monday I bumped up more memory on to this VM from 48 to 70GB but due to sql server standard edition's memory limit I set max memory to 65536 which is 64GB. This morning I noticed that in task manager SQLServer.exe is using 67GB of memory leaving 3 GB to OS.
Before memory upgrade the memory was 48 and I assigned 42GB as Max mem and never saw SQL go past 42GB.
Here are my questions:
Is SQLServer not reusing memory that it may have released?
why is it using more memory than max memory?