big ram, big disk, big swap file?

ram is cheap, hard drives are spacious, how big should I set my swap file to
be?
old rule was 1.5 x amount of ram but I have insane amounts of ram now, that
cannot hold true now, can it?

QUESTION: assuming I have more than enough disk space:

if my Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2 has 32 gigabytes of ram, how big
a swap file does it need, it runs SQL server

if my Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2 has 12 gigabytes of ram, how big
a swap file does it need, its an app server

any input is welcomed, thanks in advance!

 

Hello totoro,

Check out this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889654

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> ram is cheap, hard drives are spacious, how big should I set my swap
> file to
> be?
> old rule was 1.5 x amount of ram but I have insane amounts of ram now,
> that
> cannot hold true now, can it?
> QUESTION: assuming I have more than enough disk space:
>
> if my Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2 has 32 gigabytes of ram,
> how big a swap file does it need, it runs SQL server
>
> if my Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2 has 12 gigabytes of ram,
> how big a swap file does it need, its an app server
>
> any input is welcomed, thanks in advance!
>