• Bear in mind, as I said, unless you're seeing contention on the allocation pages, it's unlikely that splitting TempDB will get you much, if any, performance gain

    how we will know, if there is a contention on the allocation pages?

    We have the Tempdb on a separate drive with 1 data & 1 log file. I have assigned 20 GB for this drive. But tempdb data file & log file never exceeded more than 2GB so far. So before creating multiple data files, I want to know where & how can we see contention on the allocation pages?

    thanks