[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] Throttling those instances - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Sun, Jul 6 2008 21:24 bradley

Throttling those instances

http://blogs.technet.com/asksbs/archive/2008/07/05/troubleshooting-high-memory-usage-by-a-msde-instance.aspx

I asked around and in general the rule of thumb most use is as follows:

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/12/25/adjusting-sql-embedded-instances.aspx

MSFW 128
WSUS 256  (per Dr. J's blog)
SBSMonitoring  70
SharePoint  (I didn't tweak this)
If CRM is on the box, then limit SharePoint to 384

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# re: Throttling those instances

Monday, July 07, 2008 8:01 AM by Paul

Susan,

I followed the GUI process for limiting memory but then I look in the event logs and see Event ID 15457. It says to run the RECONFIGURE statement to install. On command line instructions it says this also, do you need to worry with GUI?