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Questions tagged [pagefile]

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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 recommendations.
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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 which letter to assign to the temporary drive ? I…
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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 maximize memory usage for the single process I care…
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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 free physical memory but be out of commit memory.…
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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 this.
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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 free space in an afternoon. I located the used up…
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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 by Microsoft that up to 150 Pages/sec was an…
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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 we may have to live with the problem. OS: Windows…
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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.sys which I would rather not include in the image.…
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Why is Windows writing to Page File when I have 4GB of free memory?

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 pagefile.sys. Task manager only showed 4GB of…
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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 alerts for high paging file usage (between 75%-85%…
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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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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 and so on. The server got 2GB reserved RAM and…
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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 server had more in the past). So, in my…
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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 there any way to do this? Thanks!
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