Questions tagged [pagefile]
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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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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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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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Move and Change Pagefile.sys size on Windows Server 2008
Does anyone know how to move the page file on Windows Server 2008. Everything seems to be in a different spot on this OS!
Also, I would like to tweak it's size. If you know where that is (probably ...
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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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System drive on SSD; pagefile to its own drive?
I am using an Intel X25-E SSD for the system drive of a Windows Server 2008 R2 server with 16 GB RAM. Would it be good practice to move the pagefile to its own drive? If so, for the pagefile drive, ...
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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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Swap file fragmentation: fact or fiction?
This is about Windows, but I'm sure it applies to other OS as well.
I've heard people say that if you want better performance, you should avoid swap file fragmentation. To do this, you can either ...
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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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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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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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Pagefile size on a server with tons of RAM
We have a database server that we're upgrading to 64GB of RAM, but currently it only has small SCSI drives - totaling just over 400GB (192GB after mirroring). Our database is relatively small, but ...
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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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Apache is not using SWAP and it's reporting page allocation failure
Check the logs:
httpd: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8000f696>] __alloc_pages+0x2ef/0x308
[<ffffffff80017a40>] cache_grow+0x139/0x3c7
[<...
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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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Windows swap file: why do I have a 3GB swap file when I have 8GB RAM?
Here is my system info:
I built a DIY system with the expectation that there wouldn't be any need for a swap file, yet there it is, 3340MB.
Can anyone explain this? Is it really anything I should ...
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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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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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Stop windows paging vmware
I have a couple of vm's running on windows server 2008 and since they are set up to build work project at 3am it seems the memory they use is getting paged to disk and taking for ever to start up when ...
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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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Reducing Virtual memory Page File Size on Windows 7
I've upgraded my PC to 16GB RAM and I've noticed the page file is at 16GB as well. Since I decided to go SSD, hard drive space is a bit limited so I would like to try and claim some of that 16GB back.
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Set Windows pagefile size in answer file?
Is it possible to set the Windows pagefile size in an answer file? The Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) Unattended Windows Setup Reference shows that the pagefile for the windowsPE pass of ...
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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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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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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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SQL Server 2008 R2 - RAM = 128GB, PageFile = 192GB?
Is there a definitive guide for PageFile size on the latest 64-bit servers with large amounts of RAM?
I've seen conflicting recommendations, and am wondering if the latest releases have changed the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Safe way to move Pagefile.sys SBS 2008
I would like to move my pagefile.sys from my c: to my d: on SBS 2008 what is the best way for me to do this
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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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Why is Windows writing to Page File when I have 4GB of free memory? [closed]
I have 8GB of memory on my machine, running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I put my laptop to sleep and then woke it up. As it was coming back to life I noticed a lot of activity reads and writes from/to the ...
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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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High paging file usage, plenty of RAM available
I've got 2 servers running Citrix Presentation Server 4.5.5 on Windows Server 2003 x32 Enterprise Edition SP2 (pae enabled).
Once all the users are logged in for the day, the system starts throwing ...
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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 ...
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Can the page file in Windows Web Server 2008 be placed on a USB memory stick?
I would like to run the page file off a 512 MB USB memory stick. This is possible with Vista and 7. But on Windows Web Server 2008 I cannot see the USB stick in the drive listing for page files. Is ...
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Set pagefile to be automaticly manged by windows in group policy
We have a 2003 domain, and i need to set the page file to managed by the system ( For some reason it has a manual size set ). I was wondering where i find the group policy in active directory to do ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Windows Server Ignoring Page File Settings?
I've been having some issues over the past few days with our WSUS server eating 100% CPU usage. We don't have many clients (maybe 30 or so at most), so that's not the issue (Not to mention that this ...
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Use an SD Card for your Page File - Windows 7 [closed]
I am using Windows 7 RC and wanted to know if it was possible to use an SD card ( I have a slot for it in my laptop) to hold the page file.
When I try to change my virtual memory settings, it doesn'...
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Setting up a Pagefile and Partition in Server 2008
I am setting up 18 new machines for our company, and I have instructions from my new boss on setting up a Pagefile and Partition. I have looked at their existing machines to base the new setups off of,...
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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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