I'm looking for guidelines/recommendations for setting the pagefile size on a W2K Pro SP2 machine.
 
My guideline for NT used to be to set both MIN and MAX = (2 * PhysicalRAM) + 16
 
I just bought 512MB SDRAM (only $80!!! for 2 Kingston 256M ECC sticks) , so this works out to be quite a good size pagefile:  1040
 
Interestingly enough, the W2K default setting is 768 - 1536.
 
So, for W2K is it still best to set MIN and MAX to the same value?
Is there a formula that's best to use?
Or is it best to let W2K set it's own values?
 
I know about setting the location of the pagefile:
    -- Only one PF per physical disk
    -- Create separate PFs on separate physical disks
    -- Best on non-RAID or RAID 1
    -- Avoid putting on RAID 5

Best Regards,
JMU


Jim Underwood
Apollo Information Systems, Inc.
Houston, TX 77058

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