i have had a very similar situation and found that 8 gig of ram mapped with awe was the ticket to quiesence.

you might also want to check your average disk queue and the sql server buffer chache hit ratio with perfmon. the buffer cache hit ratio will give you an...

actually, as I'm continuing to research, I have discovered that a 32 bit x86 system running the PAE kernel can have a pagefile that is up to 16 terabytes in...

actually, as I'm continuing to research, I have discovered that a 32 bit x86 system running the PAE kernel can have up to a 16 terabytes in size.

"I would think the more ram installed on a machine, the LESS swapfile you would need?"

I think that in general the rule of thumb is to estimate and then scale...

Thanks guys!