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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 internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename…
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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 usage? Note about memory for the example: 6x8GB…
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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 hits about resizing / properly sizing your swap file,…
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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 a dedicated disk for a 6GB page file. For now we…
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Change Page File via registry, WinXP

I'm trying to run a script to move users page files from C: to D: (if they don't have enough space) I've figured out how to do it by modifying HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PagingFiles It works…
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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. We decided on a page file with the Initial size of…
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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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PageFile Question

On a Windows 2003 Server - we have a page file of 1GB at the moment. I don't really know a lot about pagefiles, what is the minimum size, what are they used for? How small can I make it? The system it is running on is running out of space and there…
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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 recently users started to upload all sort of data…
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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 low. I've cleaned out the most that I can and also…
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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 and I've noticed the server is paging to disk…
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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 come to in order to fix my problem is to disable the…
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Use an SD Card for your Page File - Windows 7

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't list the drive as available to use.
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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, but there is no consistency between any 2…
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