Maximum pagefile size is not 4GB. The limit for a "manually" configured
pagefile is 4GB. When set to "System Managed", the page file(s) will be
whatever the server needs. You 'must' use the setting of "system managed"
to accommodate servers with more that this amount of memory. Otherwise the
respective server would never be able to "dump" properly. And we all want
good "dumps"... ;-)
Windows 2003 seems to do a pretty good job at memory management (virtual &
physical). We run several large SQL2k ENT/W2k3 boxes are very pleased with
the performance despite not being able to set the pagefile size(s)
statically.
Eric Jones, Senior SE
Intel Server Group
(W) 336.424.3084
(M) 336.457.2591
www.vfc.com
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Pagefile max is 4 GB. Regardless of how much memory you have.
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 6:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Pagefile sizes... Its that time of year again.
But in reality, that rule of thumb was created when RAM was very expensive,
and systems usually had a very small amount of it. By that token, I'd
require a separate array for the pagefile on my new database boxes - since
I'd need to find space for a 9GB pagefile.
With modern systems, I shoot for about 1-2GB max, depending on function.
Most large memory hog applications - specifically Exchange and SQL server -
don't like to page, and there is no performance benefit for them to do so,
since all that data is already on disk within their store.
Roger
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Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
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> From: Costanzo, Ray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The rule of thumb I've always heard is RAM×1.5, so 1.5 GB.
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> Ray at work
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> > So you have a Gig of ram on a DC, what do you all set the
> > pagefile size to?
> > Memory +11 MB?
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> > Like to hear your feedback.
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