Unique Page File 'Problem' ???

[Courtney Regan]

Just set up a new W2K Server today. It has 3 drives, and will be used
strictly as a basic file server. Drive 0 is 18GB for the O/S-single
partition. Drives 1 & 2 are mirrored 73GB 10,000k SCSI Drives for file
storage & use Software RAID. The server has 4GB of Ram.

The only thing I was wondering while in the shower, is where to put the page
file? Windows will select the size as 6GB, which would take away a lot of
space off of the O/S partition. Thinking of maybe putting it on the
mirrored volume. But will that slow down file access? Although, with 4 GB
of RAM I don't think the server would EVER use the page file no matter where
I put it.....

I was even thinking of taking out half the RAM, paring it down to 2GB so the
page file would only be a 'mere' 2GB.

Suggestions.

Thanks

 

[John John]

Windows 2000 Server cannot have a pagefile greater than 4095 MB. DO NOT
place the pagefile on mirrored drives! For optimal performance the
pagefile should be on a drive of its own on a controller of its own.
Keep a pagefile on the boot partition for a dump file and place another
pagefile on the dedicated disk. Windows will favour the pagefile on the
least active disk.

John

Oh, I almost forgot:

Configuring page files for optimization and recovery in Windows Server
2003, in Windows 2000, and in Windows NT
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197379

Search MSKB for more inormation.