Scott Tuttle wrote:
One simple way of forcing Windows to use more ram and less hard drive for
paging is to set you page file size and do not allow windows to manage it's
own file size. But do keep in mind windows is designed to page data that is
not needed out of RAM into the page file. Restricting your page file could
set off a bit of thrashing.
This is a bad idea. Windows is not designed to page out data that is
not needed from RAM. It is designed to allocate space in the page
file for running applications regardless of the amount of ram on the
system. If you start a program it will automatically allocate space
in the page file equivalent TO allow the storage of that application
in the page file system only incase it needs to do so. You should
always have a page file that is the equivilant size of the amount of
memory you have even if you dont expect windows to use the page file
for actually paging an application.
You should read this....
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555223
These rulings are intended for systems with dynamic environments and are
done for coninual performance puproses, and built for dynamic run-time
environments. This is not the scenario that a dedicated box will be
running, which much more resembles a static application set.
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