Paging File Size

[jfesler]

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!

[Radical Dreamer]

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.

[Matridom]

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.

[jfesler]

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!

[Matridom]

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.

[jfesler]

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

[Matridom]

</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.

[jfesler]

Thank you, I appreciate your input!!!