Please dont treat this as answer, just trying to highlight few things. As per the [Output of sys.dm_os_memory_nodes][1] I can see on both nodes VAS committed `virtual_address_space_committed_kb` is almost same 40 GB. But the reservation is significantly less on Node 1 which means SQL Server is not utilizing that node to its potential. Most of the workload is handled by Node 0. I have seen this in many NUMA nodes system but this is something either a bug or something relevant to how NUMA is configured. You have SP2 could you please move to SP3 CU 4 so that you are at least extended supported. may be, just may be this might resolve this behaviour. Also note from output of `sys.dm_os_nodes` the `active_worker_count` is almost same. So SQL Server is reserving and committing more from Node 0. Really dont have idea why so may be a behaviour, may be a bug. In such scenario since Node 1 is not loaded at all I would ignore PLE. > NOTE: Currently SQL Server does not have Locked pages in memory > enabled, please enable it, it would require restart and then see if > the behavior changes. **EDIT:** Update from OP. Applying SQL Server 2014 to SP3 CU 4 seems to have resolved the issue. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/QZt7B.png