Maximum server memory change taking a long time, don’t panic

So, you’ve changed the Maximum server memory option and the server property box appears to have hung, what do you do?
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The short answer: wait.

You can view the current errorlog e.g. xp_readerrorlog, and once a cachestore flush of ‘Object Plans‘, ‘SQL Plans‘ and ‘Bound Trees‘ has completed, the property box will finally close.

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As per the above screenshot, this took well over 30 minutes for this VM which was placed on an over provisioned host.

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