Questions tagged [pagefile]
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Windows: What could be the reason for a "paging file is too small" error even though there is plenty of physical memory available?
In one of our applications, we received an error message indicating "The paging file is too small for this operation to complete" while the application was trying to load a DLL (a .NET ...
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How to set Windows to create a dedicated dump file without having a page file?
According to Microsoft:
Computers that are running Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Windows
Server usually must have a page file to support a system crash dump.
System administrators can now create a ...
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Any benefit or detriment from removing a pagefile on an 8 GB RAM machine?
I'm running Windows 7 on a dual core, x64 AMD with 8 GB RAM.
Do I even need a page file?
Will removing it help or hurt performance?
Would it make a difference if this is a server or a desktop?
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Dedicated dump file - why set the size twice?
According to Microsoft:
Computers that are running Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Windows
Server usually must have a page file to support a system crash dump.
System administrators can now create a ...
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What effect does LPIM have on virtual memory
When LPIM is enabled it prevents paging out to virtual memory which causes pages to remain in ram.
My question is:
when LockPagesInMemory is enabled is the pagefile still being used some how or should ...
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SQL Server Page File location - where to put it?
There are a lot of recommendations about the sizing of the windows page file. What I am looking for is the correct placement.
We are running a MS SQL server on a Server 2012R2 VM with multiple ...
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Azure cloud VM change letter of temporary drive
In azure cloud when you start a windows image the running vm will have a temporary drive D: where the page file is set.
Is any way I can call the api (powershel, az cli etc.) and be able to specify ...
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On a system with 64GB mem the Linux Buffer run full while copying with dd to dev null and io stops till manual drop_caches
I am running a server with linux software raid 10. It is a dual CPU system with 64GB Ram. 2x16GB dimms related to each of the CPUs. I want to use dd to backup kvm virtual machines and run into a ...
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Page files and dump files and D: drives on Windows Server 2008
I have a Windows 2008 server with 7.5 GB of RAM and I want to get complete crash dumps off it.
I started by moving the page file mostly off the C: drive - I left a small 64-MB page file on the C: ...
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What exactly does "system managed size" mean for a Windows pagefile?
Windows has a "system managed size" option for pagefile size, which seems to lack precise documentation.
What exactly does Windows do when you choose this?
Does it simply select default min and max ...
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Virtual Machine, Pagefile Enabled or Dissabled?
I have 4-5 virtual machines running IIS on 2 host's. I know that the page-file must be enabled on the host machine but I'm not sure about the virtual machines. Regardless of IOps consumption my ...
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Windows page file best practices in regards to dump file?
Last night we had a critical server go down. Running Windows 2012R2. It appears to have been a random blue screen but we can't find much in the logs. We do not seem to have a dump file. Investigating, ...
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Windows page file best practices in regards to dump file?
Last night we had a critical server go down. Running Windows 2012R2. It appears to have been a random blue screen but we can't find much in the logs. We do not seem to have a dump file. Investigating, ...
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Is there a way to enable direct i/o in virtualbox when connecting to a raw disk in linux?
I found instructions on how to create a virtual disk for use with virtualbox that points to a raw block device. You can't do it from the ui, but you can do it from the command line:
VBoxManage ...
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How do I tell if my Windows server is swapping?
I'm using Process Explorer to monitor my windows server while it reconstructs some data. It's primarily a CPU intensive process, but I want to make sure it's not swapping. How can I tell if it is ...
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Pagefile & outofmemory issues on Windows Server
We have a windows server machine with 160GB of physical memory running in a colocation that we use for data analysis. Most analysis are not very memory heavy but from time to time some users trigger ...
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Reduce or remove Windows pagefile to alleviate stress on disks? [closed]
I've read a bit about the strategy applied by Windows to paginate RAM to the pagefile. Apparently, Windows may decide to paginate to disk unused pages from the processes' working set, to ensure that ...
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Virtual memory in virtualized machines (Swap File in VM?)
What are the opinions on allowing virtual memory inside a virtual machine?
For example, a host machine w/8 Gig of memory, I could run 4 VMs each w/2 Gig (roughly) and there would be no host swapping....
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W2K8 Page File usage 99.9% but allocated size ridiculously low
Hello this is a strange issue which we experience on some of our W2K8 servers.
Why the heck is currently allocated just 16MB? Performance monitor says it is 99.9% used and out monitoring system ...
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Measuring Only Page Faults That Reach the Disk
I would like to measure "truly" hard page faults, i.e. page faults that result in a disk IO.
It looks as if Memory\Page Reads/sec might do the trick, but as was explained in this answer, the page ...
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Windows Server 2016 pagefile does not increase
I apologize in advance if this is not clear enough to understand my problem, it's a bit long but I've done my best to make it understandable.
I'm running an Exchange 2016 CU6 on a Windows server 2016 ...
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Does disabling "numa interleave" from bios cause memory page-out(when cpu-1 has no free memory left) to hdd on all dual-cpu systems?
For an example system of a dell dual 4114 silver with 24GB per CPU; how would it work if my application allocates 24 GB at once? Should I be concerned about write-life of my SSD because of pagefile ...
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Performance Counters: Page Reads/sec higher than Disk Reads/sec
Comparing the values for the Windows performance counters Page Reads/sec and Disk Reads/sec I noticed that page reads are consistently higher, which is strange, as it seems that page reads should be a ...
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Nano Server - Move Pagefile
Update: I never found a way to move the pagefile and with Microsoft's pivot to make Nano container only I doubt there will ever be a way to do this.
I am trying to move the pagefile on a Windows ...
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Windows Page File allocation goes beyond filespace of drive
I have an AWS EC2 Windows host in a very strange situation, and I'm unable to actually determine how this is even possible.
Unfortunately, when I try to google or search this topic, all I get are ...
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Is there a point to having Windows manage the page file size and have a "dedicated" swap drive
On a SQL 2008R2 box we recently had a number of jobs fails for various reasons that were mostly memory related, including one stating the page file was full. The Windows 2008R2 VM had 16GB of RAM and ...
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Performance gains of putting Windows pagefile on separate partition (same disk)?
I am making a drive image that will be deployed to several computers, and I'm tweaking it for performance. It is a Windows XP image.
Considering there is only one hard drive, will the machine gain ...
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Page faults with 128GB RAM
I'm running a CPU and memory heavy application for 3D reconstruction (www.3dsurvey.si if relevant) on a AMD opteron server (4CPUs, 12cores each, 128GB RAM). I noticed that the CPU is not utilized as ...
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Not enough storage available to complete this operation
I am facing a wierd error whenever I tried to click any mmc like server manger etc its gives this error
Not enough storage available to complete this operation
Any suggestions how to resolve this...?...
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Using a RAID 0 partition for a swap file
I am configuring RAID arrays for a HP Proliant server running Windows Server 2008. We will probably use RAID10 configurations, but split it to several logical drives.
Is it reasonable to create a ...
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How can I maximize the memory usage of a single Windows process?
I have a system with a large amount of memory. Right now, to prevent a single application from paging, I've disable the paging file completely. The issue that I'm running into is that I cannot ...
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Strange page file settings behaviour?
We have a Citrix server that struggles with space mainly due to a 32GB page file on a 93GB SSD, this equals the RAM. As a test we to reduce the page file and see if there was any bad side effects.
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swap partition vs file for performance?
What is better for performance? A partition closer to the inside of the disk will have slower access times, and we must wait for the drive to switch between the OS and swap partitions.
On the other ...
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Available virtual memory size is less then pagefile size
When Windows runs out of memory commit size it starts showing 'Low memory' window and performs slowly. This low-memory warning is not directly related to free physical memory amount. One can have 7Gb ...
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Windows Pagefile monitoring with Nagios
I have a NAGIOS check that monitors virtual memory on a windows machine, this check returns all the virtual memory used (physical+ max size of the pagefile).
This is not what I want, I have tried to ...
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What would cause Windows to create temporary paging file?
After recent scheduled reboot when I remote to a server I get the following error message.
Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a
problem that occurred with your ...
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pagefile and disk space monitoring on server 2012
I have had a server crash recently because of the disk space.
Here is what I have:
a Hyper-V 2012 server with 1 win 2012 image
physical disk is 500GB server uses 800GB
It was OK for half a year but ...
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System-managed pagefile uses all available space, allocated physical memory unused
The problem:
Something on our virtualized database server is using massive amounts of our pagefile.
We noticed it about a week ago when the OS drive went from 30+GB of free space to around 500KB of ...
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Page file size windows 2008 R2
We are deploying physical windows servers (460c/Gen8/128GB RAM/300GB HDD) if I implement the page file, following the best practice of 1.5 times the ram, its going to take up the complete disk almost, ...
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Monitoring and reporting on page faults to determine memory issues
I'm in the process of configuring a performance monitor(s) against all servers in my domain. I'm using WhatsUp Gold 16.2 to send an alert when we reach certain thresholds. I recently read an article ...
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Downside with moving pagefile to different drive
I've been tasked with managing an old Windows 2003 server which will be decommissioned later this year. I just need to keep the server up and running long enough.
The space on the server is running ...
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4x PCI-E interface w/SSD
Windows Server 2003 64bit/32GB Ram/78GB HDD
I would like to store my server page files on a PCIe SSD in the 4xPCIe slot on my server. The server is a transaction server with high memory requirement ...
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What is System Code Total Bytes
I am trying to use perfmon, and according to MSDN, the "System Code Total Bytes" counter ...
Shows the size, in bytes, of pageable operating system code currently in virtual memory. It is a measure ...
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Can the paged pool memory limit can be increased?
We have a windows server 2003 R2 machine, 4GB RAM, 32 bit.
The paged pool limit is set to 354 MB. We have been having crashes twice in the last month and it is due to event ID : 2020 - The server was ...
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Windows Pagefile placement
Is it possible to reserve a desired region of a given hard disk drive for placement of the pagefile.sys before enabling the page file on that drive?
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Disabling Server 2003 Wonderware App Server Page File on VMware
There are so many threads on whether you should mess with the page file or not. This scenario describes a unique circumstance that is real world in my production enviornment. The conclusion I've ...
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Clear page file without reboot on Windows Server 2003
Known Problem: Application uses page file but has a memory leak.
Of course getting rid of the memory leak would be ideal but as this is an application that is specific to our company and built for us ...
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hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys... rebuilt on boot?
I need to take an image of a drive. I'm working from a bootable CD, so I have the option to decruft before taking the image. The Windows installation on the drive has both hyberfil.sys and pagefile....
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Pagefile.sys sizing
We have a 3 node Hyper-V cluster with each server having 96GB RAM and 2 73GB disks in a RAID 1 for the host machine OS (2008 R2). The last thing we want to happen is for the host to expand the ...
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Enable page file on VPS controlled system
I just got a Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit Virtual Private Server (VPS) and found out that the page file was disabled completely. This give me some memory problems where application quit unexpectedly ...
