I never try and figure out what the guy before me did, unless I absolutely
have to.  This isn't an absolutely have to.  Change it as necessary and move
on.  Although, this is a good sign that there's more oddness going on in
that environment.



On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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>> >
>> >
>> > 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
>> >
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