Tom, thanks for your comment. I mostly agree with what you say.

This was one of my first questions here, and not one I am still very proud of. The idea was to educate people about a possible use of the max server memory setting that I had come across while preparing a talk about query optimization, where I wanted to demonstrate cached vs non-cached IO without having to create an immense test database (because I was running out of free hard disk space).

But rereading the question and answer options now, I must admit that I somewhat disagree with myself now. 😀