Minimum space on the server and Maximum space on the server

  • Minimum space on the server and Maximum space on the server, how much should I put?

  • What type of space do you mean? Space on HDD or RAM

  • Lots of space - whatever that means to you :hehe:

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  • The more the better (and more $$ too)

    For SQL Server 2005 minimum requirements

    http://www.microsoft.com/Sqlserver/2005/en/us/system-requirements.aspx

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  • My space is on RAM 7935. My minimum server memory on the server (I got it from server properties is 0 MB) and maximum is 2147483647 on the server. Is HDD means hard drive space?

  • I think you're confusing space and capacity.

    RAM is a set number in the server. You can add more, but at a given time, that doesn't change. How much should you allocate to SQL? If this server runs SQL Server only (and Windows), then let SQL Server manage it. If you need to limit SQL Server, do that. The minimum doesn't matter.

    For hard drive space, you need what you need. That's completely data dependent.

  • So you are saying I can leave it as minimum 0?Thank you

  • I think you are talking about min/max server memory which you do from sp_configure. try the following and see what you get:

    sp_configure ' show advanced option', 1

    reconfigure

    sp_configure

    from there you should be able to see your min and max memory allocated to the server.

    Basically, here is what I did for my environment. We have total 18GB

    I gave min = 8GB and max = 12GB.

    This leaves the OS to take 6GB which will make the server optimize.

    At the same time, SQL will never fall inder 8GB at anytime making it optimized for SQL as well. You can mimic my specs here for you if you have the same.

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  • This is what I have

    affinity mask-2147483648214748364700

    allow updates0100

    awe enabled0100

    c2 audit mode0100

    cost threshold for parallelism03276755

    Cross DB Ownership Chaining0111

    cursor threshold-12147483647-1-1

    default full-text language0214748364710331033

    default language0999900

    fill factor (%)010000

    index create memory (KB)704214748364700

    lightweight pooling0100

    locks5000214748364700

    max degree of parallelism03200

    max server memory (MB)4214748364721474836472147483647

    max text repl size (B)021474836476553665536

    max worker threads3232767255255

    media retention036500

    min memory per query (KB)512214748364710241024

    min server memory (MB)0214748364700

    nested triggers0111

    network packet size (B)5123276740964096

    open objects0214748364700

    priority boost0100

    query governor cost limit0214748364700

    query wait (s)-12147483647-1-1

    recovery interval (min)03276700

    remote access0111

    remote login timeout (s)021474836472020

    remote proc trans0100

    remote query timeout (s)02147483647600600

    scan for startup procs0100

    set working set size0100

    show advanced options0111

    two digit year cutoff1753999920492049

    user connections03276700

    user options03276700

  • Whatever total space you have, allocate 20% to the OS and the rest you can allocate to SQL Server. Then within that 80% that you are allocating to the SQL Server, take 40% of that for the Minimum and Maximum stays at the 80% of total system resources.

    Hope this helps.

  • Looks like you never configured the server memory. Allocate them as I have said above and you should be having an optimized server.

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