From: Linchi Shea on
In terms of best practice, the first question may be, "do you really need to
have 16 named instances on that machine?" It's generally not a good idea to
have that many instances unless you have a specific reason for that.

Linchi

"Vivien Xing" wrote:

> I am very interested in this discussion. I would like to learn from you all about the guideline for min/max memory configure for multiple instances. My server is SQL2005 64-bit, with 36 GB memory and 16 named instances. Any suggestions or best practices to follow?
>
> Thank you,
> Vivien Xing
>