That's a good approach, if one thing looks a little bizarre-o odds are others things are too...
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 9:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: printer server paging file 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:43:17 -0400 To: [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> > Phone: 610-807-6459<tel:610-807-6459> > Fax: 610-807-6003<tel:610-807-6003> > > > > From: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > To: "NT System Admin Issues" > <[email protected]<mailto:[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. 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