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Tracking page allocations / freed for MEMORYCLERK_SOSNODE
IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM sys.server_event_sessions WHERE name='TraceMemObj')
DROP EVENT SESSION [TraceMemObj] ON SERVER
GO
CREATE EVENT SESSION [TraceMemObj] ON SERVER
ADD EVENT sqlos.page_allocated(
ACTION(package0.callstack)
WHERE (memory_clerk_name = 'MEMORYCLERK_SOSNODE')
),
ADD EVENT sqlos.page_freed(
ACTION(package0.callstack)
WHERE (memory_clerk_name = 'MEMORYCLERK_SOSNODE')
)
ADD TARGET package0.histogram
(SET source_type=1,
source=N'package0.callstack')
WITH (MAX_MEMORY=32768 KB,EVENT_RETENTION_MODE=ALLOW_SINGLE_EVENT_LOSS,
MAX_DISPATCH_LATENCY=5 SECONDS,MAX_EVENT_SIZE=0 KB,MEMORY_PARTITION_MODE=PER_CPU,TRACK_CAUSALITY=OFF,STARTUP_STATE=OFF)
GO
ALTER EVENT SESSION [TraceMemObj] on server state = start
GO
-- wait for a sizeable duration (depends on the problem - could vary from a minute to maybe an hour?) for the problem to repro, and then run the below query. Save the XML data into a file. These raw stacks can then be symbolized using SQLCallStackResolver (https://aka.ms/sqlstack).
SELECT event_session_address,
target_name,
execution_count,
CAST (target_data AS XML) AS MemObjData
FROM sys.dm_xe_session_targets AS xst
INNER JOIN
sys.dm_xe_sessions AS xs
ON (xst.event_session_address = xs.address)
WHERE xs.name = 'TraceMemObj';
GO
-- Then stop the session
-- ALTER EVENT SESSION [TraceMemObj] on server state = stop
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