ScottPletcher (2/28/2013)
If the temp files are growing, I don't want to allocate them smaller and force them to grow every time SQL starts: that's a waste of resources vs just pre-allocating them large enough.
Or maybe you did read my whitepaper. This is what I recommend. Pre-size your tempdb files out to nearly the full extent of the drive and then disable auto-growth on the files.