There is one thing that was not mentioned here. To receive the full benefit of moving the swap file off of the drive that contains the Windows 2000 systemroot folder, the D: drive should be a different physical disk not a partition on the same physical drive.
-----Original Message----- From: Ken Leyba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 6:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange swap file question To enhance performance there are three common practices: -Create multiple paging files spread across separate disks, allowing the hard disk controller to read and write to multiple paging files simultaneously. -Move the paging file off of the drive that contains the Windows 2000 systemroot folder, by default the Winnt directory. -Set the Initial Size value of the paging file to the Maximum Size value displayed in the Virtual Memory dialog box to remove the requirement of having to actually grow the paging file. In your scenario the swap file should be on the D: drive. Ken ----- Ken Leyba Windows/Exchange System Administrator California State University Dominguez Hills > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Falkenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:12 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Exchange swap file question > > > > > Hello folks, > > About to do a RAM upgrade on a Exchange server. Currently > has 500 mb of ram > with a 624mb swap file on c: drive. There is a d: drive for > logs and an F: > drive for the database neither of them have swap files. I > want to increase > the ram on this machine to 1 or 2 gb but that's going to eat > up a lot of > space on the c: partition. The partitions are c: 4gb (OS), > d: 4gb Logs and > f: user partition is 70+ gb. > > What is recommended? I found documents on how big but not > where to put the > swap file or if there should or should not be more then one. > > > Thanks > > Bob F. > > List Charter and FAQ at: > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm > List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
