Buffalo said:
John John - MVP wrote:
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There is no set rule for pagefile sizing, recommendations are usually
anything from 1.5 to 3 times the size of the installed RAM with 1.5
times being usually suggested as a suitable size for most systems.
Being that your system complains a lot I would set it to a static size
of 3 x RAM (1536 min & 1536 max) and see what happens.
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John, why would you set the pagefile higher if you have more ram?
Buffalo
PS: If you move up to 3GB of ram than you say your pagefile should be set to
around 4.5 to 9GB of ram.
If you have 512MB of ram, than your pagefile should be set to 768MB to
1.5GB.
I really don't understand.
It depends on the applications that you use, each process has access to
a flat 2GB virtual memory space. If you run really hungry programs
(video editing, CAD/CAM or large spreadsheets, for example) they can
consume large amounts of RAM and thus may require a bigger paging file
should the system need to page out code and data, so you need a larger
pagefile in case you need to free up RAM for other processes. As a
general rule the pagefile will be at least equal to the installed RAM +
a few MB. However, as you point out, with more RAM installed the need
for the paging file will (or should) decrease.
On Windows 2000 the pagefile size limit is 4095MB, that is the largest
that it can be... but if need be you can create multiple pagefiles.
Some hungry servers are sometimes setup with multiple pagefiles but few
workstations ever need to use multiple pagefiles, a workstation with 3GB
of RAM will not likely need to page often or much to the disk so the
pagefile could be much smaller, as I said earlier, there are no set
rules for the pagefile size, just general guidelines. Monitoring the
pagefile usage is the best way to determine what is best for your machine.
John
