Pagefilesize on W2K3 R2 Enterprise

[Guest Celina]

Hi, there

We have a Windows 2003 Server Enterprise in 32 Bit with 32 GB physical RAM.

 

There are two things we are not quite sure:

First: What is the correct pagefilesize? Is it twice the RAM (which means 64

GB of pagefile) or only 1,5 (which is then 48 GB)?

Second: Is it correct that the size of a pagefile cannot exceed 4 GB per

Volume under 32 bit even if we use Enterprise Edition? If that is correct, we

have to use nearly half of the alphabeth in order to give the server

swap-partitions ...

 

Does anybody have experience with such a large RAM-Size and give us an

advice? Any help would be appreciated.

 

Greetings

 

Celina

[Guest David]

Re: Pagefilesize on W2K3 R2 Enterprise

 

Are you experiencing performance issues?

 

I would let the system handle it. Just make sure it isn't located on the

system drive. A 48Gb page file is a bit excessive.

 

 

 

"Celina" <Celina@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:2B2FE902-8A09-4817-B683-D85BBF24DDD6@microsoft.com...

> Hi, there

> We have a Windows 2003 Server Enterprise in 32 Bit with 32 GB physical

> RAM.

>

> There are two things we are not quite sure:

> First: What is the correct pagefilesize? Is it twice the RAM (which means

> 64

> GB of pagefile) or only 1,5 (which is then 48 GB)?

> Second: Is it correct that the size of a pagefile cannot exceed 4 GB per

> Volume under 32 bit even if we use Enterprise Edition? If that is correct,

> we

> have to use nearly half of the alphabeth in order to give the server

> swap-partitions ...

>

> Does anybody have experience with such a large RAM-Size and give us an

> advice? Any help would be appreciated.

>

> Greetings

>

> Celina

[Guest R. Paulson]

RE: Pagefilesize on W2K3 R2 Enterprise

 

Hey Celina, first off, what is your current RAM usage? if you are under

40-30% get rid of your page file... might as well go to 64gb of RAM and your

server will run hella fast... If getting rid of it with 32gb causes a bit of

performance lag then just make it OS small... run only about 1.5gb on a

sepaerate drive from the OS if possible... ofcourse, it is very important to

know what you are running on the server.. is it a file server? or is it a DB

host? Terminal services... etc.. let me know.. details, and I'll help you out.

 

"Celina" wrote:

> Hi, there

> We have a Windows 2003 Server Enterprise in 32 Bit with 32 GB physical RAM.

>

> There are two things we are not quite sure:

> First: What is the correct pagefilesize? Is it twice the RAM (which means 64

> GB of pagefile) or only 1,5 (which is then 48 GB)?

> Second: Is it correct that the size of a pagefile cannot exceed 4 GB per

> Volume under 32 bit even if we use Enterprise Edition? If that is correct, we

> have to use nearly half of the alphabeth in order to give the server

> swap-partitions ...

>

> Does anybody have experience with such a large RAM-Size and give us an

> advice? Any help would be appreciated.

>

> Greetings

>

> Celina

[Guest Celina]

RE: Pagefilesize on W2K3 R2 Enterprise

 

Its a SQL2005 with SP2 Server

 

"R. Paulson" wrote:

> Hey Celina, first off, what is your current RAM usage? if you are under

> 40-30% get rid of your page file... might as well go to 64gb of RAM and your

> server will run hella fast... If getting rid of it with 32gb causes a bit of

> performance lag then just make it OS small... run only about 1.5gb on a

> sepaerate drive from the OS if possible... ofcourse, it is very important to

> know what you are running on the server.. is it a file server? or is it a DB

> host? Terminal services... etc.. let me know.. details, and I'll help you out.

>

> "Celina" wrote:

>

> > Hi, there

> > We have a Windows 2003 Server Enterprise in 32 Bit with 32 GB physical RAM.

> >

> > There are two things we are not quite sure:

> > First: What is the correct pagefilesize? Is it twice the RAM (which means 64

> > GB of pagefile) or only 1,5 (which is then 48 GB)?

> > Second: Is it correct that the size of a pagefile cannot exceed 4 GB per

> > Volume under 32 bit even if we use Enterprise Edition? If that is correct, we

> > have to use nearly half of the alphabeth in order to give the server

> > swap-partitions ...

> >

> > Does anybody have experience with such a large RAM-Size and give us an

> > advice? Any help would be appreciated.

> >

> > Greetings

> >

> > Celina

[Guest Celina]

RE: Pagefilesize on W2K3 R2 Enterprise

 

Hello,

Thanks for your post. (I don't know who else was using my nickname but it

wasn't me that simply wrote "SQL Server". So, to the "other" Celina: Don't

post in foreign posts, ok? Thats no nice behaviour and very annoying to other

people.)

 

The server is in build and has to have in future indeed a SQL Server

Installation (Enterprise 2005 with SP2 on it), but thats not the problem.

 

It was possible for us to create a pagefile with a size of 48 GB in one file

and we were wondering whether the server can use it or not (because of the

restrictions under 32 Bit for 4 GB of adressable virtual memory per process).

 

Greetings

 

Celina

 

"R. Paulson" wrote:

> Hey Celina, first off, what is your current RAM usage? if you are under

> 40-30% get rid of your page file... might as well go to 64gb of RAM and your

> server will run hella fast... If getting rid of it with 32gb causes a bit of

> performance lag then just make it OS small... run only about 1.5gb on a

> sepaerate drive from the OS if possible... ofcourse, it is very important to

> know what you are running on the server.. is it a file server? or is it a DB

> host? Terminal services... etc.. let me know.. details, and I'll help you out.

>

> "Celina" wrote:

>

> > Hi, there

> > We have a Windows 2003 Server Enterprise in 32 Bit with 32 GB physical RAM.

> >

> > There are two things we are not quite sure:

> > First: What is the correct pagefilesize? Is it twice the RAM (which means 64

> > GB of pagefile) or only 1,5 (which is then 48 GB)?

> > Second: Is it correct that the size of a pagefile cannot exceed 4 GB per

> > Volume under 32 bit even if we use Enterprise Edition? If that is correct, we

> > have to use nearly half of the alphabeth in order to give the server

> > swap-partitions ...

> >

> > Does anybody have experience with such a large RAM-Size and give us an

> > advice? Any help would be appreciated.

> >

> > Greetings

> >

> > Celina