I have a Windows Server 2012 with rather slow hard-drives BUT with a lot of RAM and I can't change that (it's an Amazon EC2 actually).
What can I do to optimize performance?
I have 16 GB of physical memory but 5-6 GB of it always stay free. Should I increase disk-cache size? Or maybe disable the page file? Or make it fixed size? Interested in general Windows tuning tips, possibly not involving "buy a faster drive from Amazon" :)
PS. The server runs an IIS web-server (intensively used) and an SQL-server with one small (6GB) database. SQL already uses 7GB (looks like all the DB is already cached there).
Thanks guys!