Re: Security log file size (Windows 2003)

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNoSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 11/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 06:33:13 -0700

The new release of the security guides will advise
about a 400 meg max for the sum of all event logs.
The actual max depends on the precise load usage
load on a machine, with the limit being due to the
1 gig max imposed by the architecture on memory
mapped files. 

-- 
Roger
"Eugene Hovjacky" <ehovjack@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> What is the largest Event log size the Windows 2003 server can 
> accommodate? I plan to raise the level of logging on our domain 
> controllers and of course I need to increase the Event log sizes, 
> currently I have them set to 64meg. I have plenty of disk space. What the 
> largest anyone has created?
>
> Thanks.
>