It has been ours aw well. It appears that if one reserves the minimum memory necessary to make the OS happy, and anything else that may be running - then take the rest for SQL Server, things work mor harmoniously. It will also redice to some point some of the system performance issues as it works with what it is told to use. As long as the OS has enough memory to not utilize paging it is happy. This is actually a throwback to the early years when SQL Server was Sybase. After MS took over at the version they did, they made a lot of rule changes to try to distance themselves. MS and I had numerous arguments over best practices and they finally conformed:hehe: