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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 expected due to (what I believe) page faults. We…
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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 search for some checks that only monitor the…
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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 be concerned about? In case this matters:
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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 serious io problem. First I thought is related to the…
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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 setup can be set, but that this setting does not…
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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 performance if I place the Windows pagefile on a…
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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. I've read plenty of articles that strongly…
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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 single dedicated RAID 0 logical drive just for 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 subset of disk reads. Obviously, that is not the…
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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 Server Nano install. The page file is located at E:\…
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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 creates alerts about this. On another server there was…
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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 paging file configuration when you started 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 of the amount of physical memory being used by the…
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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 unable to allocate paged pool memory. We also…
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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 pagefile.sys and consume the entire C drive. It is…
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