Questions tagged [pagefile]
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Windows XP page file on laptop second SSD drive
I saw a question on moving hyberfile.sys to a different drive from the boot partition, which I was considering as I have an SSD as the second drive in one of my laptops. All the answers say you can't - ok - but I can move the page file to the SSD…
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Hyper-V Core: Dedicate SSD for pagefiles
I want to move pagefile.sys from C: -HDD- to S: -SSD- on Hyper-V Core. I just upgraded RAM from 8GB to 16GB. 8GB was pretty enough. I also want to move guest OSes' pagefiles to SSD as .VHD format. Primary virtual Windows Server SBS has 6GB RAM and…
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Pagefile system managed size not sticking
anyone ever issue where changing the page file setting to system managed doesnt stick. i change it, click ok, go back in, and its back to the defined values?? tried rebooting, same issue. working with windows 2003 enterprise x32
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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: drive so there'd be one, but added a 8 GB initial and…
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How much to increase page file value for SQL Server 2008 R2 Full Text Search Engine
SQL Server 2008 R2 Full-text search engine (FTS) is taking up too much resource (I/O & Memory) in my production server. (migrated from SQL server 2005).
I have been reading up on SQL Server FTS engine Internals and Enhancements and there was a…
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Windows pagefile location issue
I am using Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I heard it is better to store page file on the same disk as OS (normally disk C), is that correct? If so, any document about this point?
thanks in advance,
George
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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 you just disable the pagefile?
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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 monitoring keeps sending that the page file usage is…
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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, I found this:
"To take advantage of the dump…
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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, I found this:
"To take advantage of the dump…
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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 queries that exceed the physical memory. As a…
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Reduce or remove Windows pagefile to alleviate stress on disks?
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 there's available RAM to attend additional needs…
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