Pagefile windows 2008 best practice




















I use Xenapp and like Milos tell, it's more to know what application you distribute and for how many users. Offline plugin used with Streamed app? Hi Hakan,. C drive should have 4GB page file.

C drive should have 6GB page file. Aforementioned are basic requirements. As best practice, you need to set page file 1. For instance,. Now, how would you ditribute the page file? Here is the way, You need create a separate Drive and split the Page file other than the preset page file on C drive. For more details, you might want to refer following discussion.

Gold Image Build setting question. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights. Most of the downtime's are caused because of SysAdmin's curiosity! You have omitted important aspect, namely the applications that run in server environment. Do not hesitate to ask in Citrix and VMware forums. The idea behind the so-called 'best-practice' of 1. This was not a best-practice in those days, it was a necessity. If your server is paging, either you are running too many things on it, or your server is not correctly sized and needs more memory.

Totally agree with The real Gregski. That's also one of the reasons behind the 1. Having a Pagefile serves a back-up against, for example blue screens and application hangs, and if physical memory is plentiful, and keeping in mind the above reasons, why not configure one?!

Viewed 12k times. Improve this question. I've a server with RAM windows that hosts 16 VMs, and the page file is automatically managed by the system, and it only takes 20GB.

What are you going to use that server for? What best practices do you quote that go for 1. Yes, I remember that being a best practice a long time ago; but not the case anymore. I don't believe that the "rule of thumb" you're following is applicable to Windows Server and forward. Have a read of the article at the link. Personally, with W2K8 and forward I set the pagefile to system managed. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. There are a few things to consider here.

You can also leave it at "system managed" and measure what the system is going to do with it. So now you have to ask yourself: Do you care about a full crash dump? Improve this answer. Good call — MDMarra. Paolo Paolo 1 1 silver badge 11 11 bronze badges. For Server and R2: For "normal" servers let Windows manage the page file.

It will almost always be 1x RAM. For Server and R2: Let Windows manage the page file in all situations. The default policy IIRC is that windows will set the pagefile size itself. This means that -depending on the need of free memory- the swapfile will continously resize. Files that grow shrink all the time tend to fragment, but what's worse is that these are big files and they quite often cause other larger files on your disk to fragment more quickly.

You can put your swap file disk on faster disks, remember even when you have lots of memory in your VM, windows still tends to create a pagefile about the same size as your internal memory.



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