One other thing to chime in on.. On Novell servers there is a correlation between memory and the size of the hard drives installed. I have seen some hints in some articles (ones that I didn't keep) that give a similar reference for MS servers.
Also in Novell servers you can look up on the web for a search on how to determine memory. There is a Excel Spreadsheet floating around the web for this, do a search for this and it might provide a little background on a best way to think about this.
Jim Limburg
At 08:36 AM 10/20/2004, you wrote:
> John, I have been told by Microsoft personnel that anything above 512 MB is > wasted under any circumstances. 256 most likely will be adequate. >
As a blanket statement, that's just doesn't ring true to me.
If the server were "just" a file server, that statement might hold water, but if
there are any costly services (sql server, exchange, terminal services, IIS) the
memory requirements can ramp up rapidly.
Just imagine Terminal Services with 3 connected users that have a couple of Office applications open in each session.
My 2003 server has Exchange, SqlServer, IIS and has a little over 550MB of memory in use (1GB total) even though SqlServer is idle.
Memory is cheap. Remember win98 minimum of 32mb, but how happy it was at 64.
Probably a good rule. Whatever the minimum would be for basic operation for the
configuration, double it.
It will negate most of the disk pagefile requirement and everything will run smoothly.
