How to release the memory allocated to SQL Server?

The task manager shows my SQL Server use 1.7G memory. However, it returns
130M if I stop and start the service and it will keep this amount quite a
while. Anyway to "release" the memory without stop the server?
> The task manager shows my SQL Server use 1.7G memory. However, it returns
> 130M if I stop and start the service and it will keep this amount quite a
> while. Anyway to "release" the memory without stop the server?
Set server option "max memory".
INF: SQL Server Memory Usage
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=321363
AMB
"nick" wrote:

> The task manager shows my SQL Server use 1.7G memory. However, it returns
> 130M if I stop and start the service and it will keep this amount quite a
> while. Anyway to "release" the memory without stop the server?
|||You can set the Max memory option so that sql server won't take more than
that memory...normally sql server release the memory if other processes
requires more memory...do u have any particular reason to reduce the sql
server memory usage?
"nick" wrote:

> The task manager shows my SQL Server use 1.7G memory. However, it returns
> 130M if I stop and start the service and it will keep this amount quite a
> while. Anyway to "release" the memory without stop the server?
|||SQL Server does not release memory unless the OS asks for it. This is the
intended behavior.
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=321363 SQL Server 7 & 2000 memory
usage
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"nick" <nick@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> The task manager shows my SQL Server use 1.7G memory. However, it returns
> 130M if I stop and start the service and it will keep this amount quite a
> while. Anyway to "release" the memory without stop the server?
|||I am running Analysis Service at the same machine. However, it looks the AS
has problem if SQL Server already takes a lot of memory and SQL Server
doesn't release memory when AS keep allocating more and more memory and
finally behave strange.
"harvinder" wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> You can set the Max memory option so that sql server won't take more than
> that memory...normally sql server release the memory if other processes
> requires more memory...do u have any particular reason to reduce the sql
> server memory usage?
> "nick" wrote:
|||I am running Analysis Service at the same machine. However, it looks the AS
has problem if SQL Server already takes a lot of memory and SQL Server
doesn't release memory when AS keep allocating more and more memory and
finally behave strange.
"harvinder" wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> You can set the Max memory option so that sql server won't take more than
> that memory...normally sql server release the memory if other processes
> requires more memory...do u have any particular reason to reduce the sql
> server memory usage?
> "nick" wrote: