lack of experience and only book knowledge, or a relic from the NT 4 days that never adapted ? I'm guessing the print server had 8gb of RAM as that was a default server build option. With RAM so plentiful and relatively inexpensive, the old (2xRAM)+12 for max and min=RAM are no longer relevant
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:14 PM, [email protected] <[email protected] > wrote: > agreed... im just wondering if anyone has any thoughts as to WHY the > previous admin might have done that? ha. > > J > > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Erik Goldoff [email protected] > Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:43:17 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: printer server paging file > > > +1 on excessive. > > With 8gb of RAM, I'd set min and max both to 8gb too, to avoid file > fragmentation, and be done with it. I don't see how a 24gb page file can > do > anything but cause performance issues and consume unnecessary drive space. > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Christopher Bodnar < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Seems very excessive. One of our print servers is a VM with 2G RAM and a > 4G > > pagefile, it has over 400 printers and is very heavily used. No issues. > > > > YMMV > > > > Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP > > Technical Support III > > Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services > > Guardian Life Insurance Company of America > > Email: [email protected] > > Phone: 610-807-6459 > > Fax: 610-807-6003 > > > > > > > > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > To: "NT System Admin Issues" < > [email protected] > > > > > Date: 10/14/2011 10:47 AM > > Subject: printer server paging file > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > > > Okay, this isn't something I've seen before. > > > > Inherited a print server. It has 7 network printers. There doesn't seem > > to be an extraordinary amount of printing going on (read: minimal). The > > server has 8GB of memory (2008 R2). Strangely enough, the paging file > > minimum is set at 24,000 and maximum at 36,000. Anyone have thoughts as > to > > why such a large paging file? I've never seen anything like this before, > > ha. Not on a hardly-used server with 8GB of memory. Just curious... > > > > J > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - > > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - > http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
