[WinMac] Re: Page Files

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:18:03 -0500

        Good evening!

        I'll reply inline for clarity...

At 07:31 PM 3/29/99 +0100, Michael Curtis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an NT server with 512m of ram running a 90gig raid. The
>machine has a 1gig boot partition. I copied the page file sizes that were
>set during the install to the d: drive this is a 3gig partition. I thought
>that would move the page file, but now I have two.

        That's OK: In fact, you want to split your pagefile (Virtual Memory for
the Mac readers) across all your disk spindles.

        To change the page file size, right-click on My Computer, scroll to
Properties, click on the Performance tab and click on "Change..." under
Virtual Memory.

> Is this good? Can you have a page file that is too big?

        Since I assume you are running NT4/x86, you have a total of 2 gigs of
address space to play with. So, with a half-gig of RAM then you'll want to
have a total page file size of 1.5 gigs.

>Is it safe
>to turn off the C: drive page file?

        Yes, but you'll lose a spindle (assuming your C: drive is an entire
physical drive).

>I was hoping I could set it to zero,
>zero in the system control panel and get rid of it. The server is working
>fine at the moment.

        More importantly is having the pagefile on each partition a constant size,
with one fragment. This is done by making the minimum and maximum sizes on
EACH partition the same size, i.e. if you have 5 (physical) drives then
assign 300 megabytes to each drive.

        Good luck!
        Dan Schwartz

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