Here is a scenario: When we are monitoring memory usage by one of the SQL Server instance, surprisingly SQL Server is using more memory than Max Server Memory configuration. Any idea why it's happing?

[Sean]

Hello everyone, I would like to ask you a question that has been in my head for a while, and I can not find an answer, here is a scenario: when we are monitoring memory usage by one of the sql server instance, surprisingly sql server is using more memory than max server memory configuration. any idea why it’s happing? Thank you for answering the question.