Session memory – who’s this guy named Max and what’s he doing with my memory?
SQL Server MVP Jonathan Kehayias ( blog ) emailed me a question last week when he noticed that the total memory used by the buffers for an event session was larger than the value he specified for the MAX_MEMORY option in the CREATE EVENT SESSION DDL. The answer here seems like an excellent subject for me to kick-off my new “401 – Internals” tag that identifies posts where I pull back the curtains a bit and let you peek into what’s going on inside the extended events engine.
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Session memory – who’s this guy named Max and what’s he doing with my memory?
