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Hmmm. &nbsp;This is a brand new server. &nbsp;Our old sharepoint server also had 16gb of memory and we never had this issue. <br />
Correction: &nbsp;We are on SQL 2005, SP3.<br />
I'll look into your solution.
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Hmmm.  This is a brand new server.  Our old sharepoint server also had 16gb of memory and we never had this issue.
Correction:  We are on SQL 2005, SP3.
I'll look into your solution.

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We seem to have a memory leak on our sharepoint / sql server. &nbsp;It is a stand alone sharepoint server. &nbsp;MOSS 2007 (SP2), SQL std 2005 (SP2). &nbsp;It is on a virtual server. &nbsp;sqlservr.exe uses every bit of memory available. &nbsp;Rebooting the server helps for a short time, but the sqlservr.exe process does not take long to steal all of the memory (16GB!). &nbsp;
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We seem to have a memory leak on our sharepoint / sql server.  It is a stand alone sharepoint server.  MOSS 2007 (SP2), SQL std 2005 (SP2).  It is on a virtual server.  sqlservr.exe uses every bit of memory available.  Rebooting the server helps for a short time, but the sqlservr.exe process does not take long to steal all of the memory (16GB!).  

sqlservr.exe memory leak SQL 2005, Sharepoint 2007

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Microsoft Sharepoint is a software platform and family of software products used for collaboration and web publishing combined. These capabilities include developing web sites, portals, intranets, content management systems, search engines, wikis, blogs, and other tools for business intelligence and collaboration. SharePoint has a Microsoft Office-like interface, and it is closely integrated with the Office suite.