RE: Guidelines for W2K Pro PageFile Size

[Troy A. Miller]

I usually set the min and max the same. As the pagefile begins to grow, it may become fragmented. Based on your system requirements, be sure to set your initial pagefile large enough to accommodate your requirements, because when you have to come back and increase it, the system usually allocates the space anywhere on the chosen partition as it sees fit. All is not lost! Diskeeper 5.0 or 6.0 to the rescue! Use the boot-time defragmentation and make everything contiguous!!!!!!!and defragment the MFT and Pagefile as needed. I hope that this helps.

 

Troy,txs

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 4:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Guidelines for W2K Pro PageFile Size

The main reason to set the pagefile to a static size is so that you don't incur a performance penalty as it grows.

 

Of course, depending on what you do, you may never even reach the 768MB number, so it might be a moot point.

 

I prefer static.

 

Win2K likes a larger Pagefile, and the default is 1.5x to 3x of RAM.

 

Perfmon is still the best way to figure out what you need...

 

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Underwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 3:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Guidelines for W2K Pro PageFile Size

I'm looking for guidelines/recommendations for setting the pagefile size on a W2K Pro SP2 machine.

 

My guideline for NT used to be to set both MIN and MAX = (2 * PhysicalRAM) + 16

 

I just bought 512MB SDRAM (only $80!!! for 2 Kingston 256M ECC sticks) , so this works out to be quite a good size pagefile:  1040

 

Interestingly enough, the W2K default setting is 768 - 1536.

 

So, for W2K is it still best to set MIN and MAX to the same value?

Is there a formula that's best to use?

Or is it best to let W2K set it's own values?

 

I know about setting the location of the pagefile:

    -- Only one PF per physical disk

    -- Create separate PFs on separate physical disks

    -- Best on non-RAID or RAID 1

    -- Avoid putting on RAID 5

Best Regards,
JMU

Jim Underwood
Apollo Information Systems, Inc.
Houston, TX 77058

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