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 >> > 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 > ~ 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
