Paging File Size

Alright, everywhere you look, there is a different theory on how to configure the Paging File Size. I am now asking your opinions on where and what mine should be...

4 Servers...

1st Server - Exchange 5.5 on NT 4.0

Memory - 2.5GB
Space available on C: 634MB
Space available on E: 9.01GB

2nd Server - File Server (PDC) NT 4.0

Memory - 1GB
Space available on C: 325MB
Space available on E: 23.6GB

3rd Server - SQL Server 2000 Server

Memory - 2GB
Space available on C: 8.71GB

4th Server - Fax Server, Image storage NT 4.0
Memory - 256MB
Space available on C: 2.13GB
Space available on E: 3.48GB

Thank you in advance!

From what I have seen its best just to leave it as as a system managed page file. But with that amount of memory, you probably wont need one at all.

open the task manager, and tell us the numbers there.. "peak" and "current" are the important ones.. make sure your server has been runnign a while before taking these numbers, the longer the system has been up, the numbers will better reflect the trends..

I posted a while back on my theory for paging file management.. I'll dig around and see if i can find the thread, been a month or two though.

Each server has been up for a few weeks.

Exchange server:
Peak - 599364 Current - 590216

File Server
Peak - 133828 Current - 123044

SQL Server
Peak - 1575236 Current - 1526896

Fax Server
Peak - 88028 Current - 82796

Thanks!

my general farmula is has such... (Peak * 1.5) - Physical ram = paging file.

If negative number, disable the pagefile.

Since it's business, you should maybe up it a little.. try *1.75 instead..

your Curent ram should be withing your physical ram.. looks like your good on that one for most of the servers.. hope it helps.

Should the number be dependant upon the amount of space available on the drive? That is what Microsoft suggests...

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by jfesler:
<strong>Should the number be dependant upon the amount of space available on the drive? That is what Microsoft suggests...</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Microsoft also says that your page file should be 1.5 times the size of your ram... Go fig. I don't trust MS for anything.

Thank you, I appreciate your input!!!