Adding paging file on D drive

[Guest Cindy B]

Hi -

Hopely someone can give some advice on this. I have a GIS server that is

getting Virtual memeory errors and running slow. The server has 3 gig RAM.

I checked the paging file and it is only 384MB. ouch! However, when I try

to increase the size - I get a message that there is not enough space on C to

increase it. I have a large D drive with 80% free space.

What is my best option? should I just add a paging file to D, and leave the

current one on C as it is? The Virtual memory screen is showing minimum

should be 2MB - and recommended is 5374.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated - thanks in advance for

your time!

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Cindy B

[Guest Chris M]

Re: Adding paging file on D drive

 

Cindy B wrote:

> Hi -

> Hopely someone can give some advice on this. I have a GIS server that is

> getting Virtual memeory errors and running slow. The server has 3 gig RAM.

> I checked the paging file and it is only 384MB. ouch! However, when I try

> to increase the size - I get a message that there is not enough space on C to

> increase it. I have a large D drive with 80% free space.

> What is my best option? should I just add a paging file to D, and leave the

> current one on C as it is? The Virtual memory screen is showing minimum

> should be 2MB - and recommended is 5374.

> Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated - thanks in advance for

> your time!

 

Definitely create a large pagefile on D:\

 

You won't be able to create one as large as the recommended size - the

maximum size for a pagefile is 4096 megs (this might be different on

IA64/x64 platforms but I haven't checked). If I were you I'd just set it

to 'System managed' and Windows will grow it as necessary.

 

You could get rid of the page file on C:. This will prevent memory dumps

being saved to disk in the event of a BSOD, but the page file needs to

be as big as the physical memory for a complete dump, or 1/3 of the

physical memory size for a kernel dump, so the point is moot.

 

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Chris.

[Guest SBS Rocker]

Re: Adding paging file on D drive

 

Yes moving your pagefile.sys file off of your C: partition and to your D:

partition certainly will reslove your your lack of disk space issues.

Performance wise by increasing it will certainly help but not enough to

matter if your C and D are on the same volume. For enhanced performance when

dealing with pagefile.sys moving it to a different volume is the only way

you will see performance upgrade.

 

 

"Cindy B" <benedett@brainerd.net> wrote in message

news:447E98E5-F8D6-4DA8-B05E-79CF9983C60D@microsoft.com...

> Hi -

> Hopely someone can give some advice on this. I have a GIS server that is

> getting Virtual memeory errors and running slow. The server has 3 gig

> RAM.

> I checked the paging file and it is only 384MB. ouch! However, when I

> try

> to increase the size - I get a message that there is not enough space on C

> to

> increase it. I have a large D drive with 80% free space.

> What is my best option? should I just add a paging file to D, and leave

> the

> current one on C as it is? The Virtual memory screen is showing minimum

> should be 2MB - and recommended is 5374.

> Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated - thanks in advance for

> your time!

> --

> Cindy B

[Guest Mathieu CHATEAU]

Re: Adding paging file on D drive

 

Hello,

 

many things to look after:

-Check which process is eating the memory. Process explorer would be

helpful:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processexplorer.mspx

 

Do you have the /3GB switch in the boot.ini ? Which applications run on this

server ? exchange ?

 

You may use windirstat (freeware) to find the spaces eater:

http://windirstat.info/

 

You may clean up old hotfix folders:

http://gollum123.free.fr/hotfix_cleaner.vbs

 

Look for previous memory dump:

c:\windows\memory.dmp

 

 

 

 

--

Cordialement,

Mathieu CHATEAU

English blog: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com

French blog: http://www.lotp.fr

 

 

"Cindy B" <benedett@brainerd.net> wrote in message

news:447E98E5-F8D6-4DA8-B05E-79CF9983C60D@microsoft.com...

> Hi -

> Hopely someone can give some advice on this. I have a GIS server that is

> getting Virtual memeory errors and running slow. The server has 3 gig

> RAM.

> I checked the paging file and it is only 384MB. ouch! However, when I

> try

> to increase the size - I get a message that there is not enough space on C

> to

> increase it. I have a large D drive with 80% free space.

> What is my best option? should I just add a paging file to D, and leave

> the

> current one on C as it is? The Virtual memory screen is showing minimum

> should be 2MB - and recommended is 5374.

> Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated - thanks in advance for

> your time!

> --

> Cindy B

[Guest Gis Bun]

Re: Adding paging file on D drive

 

Problem with "hotfix_cleaner.vbs" is that it doesn't remove the KB references

in the registry at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Uninstall

 

"Mathieu CHATEAU" wrote:

> Hello,

>

> many things to look after:

> -Check which process is eating the memory. Process explorer would be

> helpful:

> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processexplorer.mspx

>

> Do you have the /3GB switch in the boot.ini ? Which applications run on this

> server ? exchange ?

>

> You may use windirstat (freeware) to find the spaces eater:

> http://windirstat.info/

>

> You may clean up old hotfix folders:

> http://gollum123.free.fr/hotfix_cleaner.vbs

>

> Look for previous memory dump:

> c:\windows\memory.dmp

>

>

>

>

> --

> Cordialement,

> Mathieu CHATEAU

> English blog: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com

> French blog: http://www.lotp.fr

>

>

> "Cindy B" <benedett@brainerd.net> wrote in message

> news:447E98E5-F8D6-4DA8-B05E-79CF9983C60D@microsoft.com...

> > Hi -

> > Hopely someone can give some advice on this. I have a GIS server that is

> > getting Virtual memeory errors and running slow. The server has 3 gig

> > RAM.

> > I checked the paging file and it is only 384MB. ouch! However, when I

> > try

> > to increase the size - I get a message that there is not enough space on C

> > to

> > increase it. I have a large D drive with 80% free space.

> > What is my best option? should I just add a paging file to D, and leave

> > the

> > current one on C as it is? The Virtual memory screen is showing minimum

> > should be 2MB - and recommended is 5374.

> > Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated - thanks in advance for

> > your time!

> > --

> > Cindy B

>

>

[Guest Gis Bun]

RE: Adding paging file on D drive

 

 

First try and see if anything can be cleaned off the "C" drive. Temp files

within any profiles, hotfix and service pack uninstalls [remove only if the

update seems "fine", etc.].

 

Next remove the swap on the "C" drive and add it to the fastest drive

available. Before remove, defrag the fastest drive available. It should be

generally 1.5 times the amount of RAM available. Set the minimum and maximum

to the same size. This reduces [defragged] the defragmentation and should

increase the speed a bit.

 

"Cindy B" wrote:

> Hi -

> Hopely someone can give some advice on this. I have a GIS server that is

> getting Virtual memeory errors and running slow. The server has 3 gig RAM.

> I checked the paging file and it is only 384MB. ouch! However, when I try

> to increase the size - I get a message that there is not enough space on C to

> increase it. I have a large D drive with 80% free space.

> What is my best option? should I just add a paging file to D, and leave the

> current one on C as it is? The Virtual memory screen is showing minimum

> should be 2MB - and recommended is 5374.

> Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated - thanks in advance for

> your time!

> --

> Cindy B

[Guest Mathieu CHATEAU]

Re: Adding paging file on D drive

 

Yes it does:

oShell.RegDelete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\" _

& "CurrentVersion\Uninstall\" & sUpdateName & "\"

 

--

Cordialement,

Mathieu CHATEAU

English blog: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com

French blog: http://www.lotp.fr

 

 

"Gis Bun" <GisBun@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:50C29790-6BED-400A-B6F0-3E4974D0F8B4@microsoft.com...

> Problem with "hotfix_cleaner.vbs" is that it doesn't remove the KB

> references

> in the registry at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current

> Version\Uninstall

>

> "Mathieu CHATEAU" wrote:

>

>> Hello,

>>

>> many things to look after:

>> -Check which process is eating the memory. Process explorer would be

>> helpful:

>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processexplorer.mspx

>>

>> Do you have the /3GB switch in the boot.ini ? Which applications run on

>> this

>> server ? exchange ?

>>

>> You may use windirstat (freeware) to find the spaces eater:

>> http://windirstat.info/

>>

>> You may clean up old hotfix folders:

>> http://gollum123.free.fr/hotfix_cleaner.vbs

>>

>> Look for previous memory dump:

>> c:\windows\memory.dmp

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> --

>> Cordialement,

>> Mathieu CHATEAU

>> English blog: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com

>> French blog: http://www.lotp.fr

>>

>>

>> "Cindy B" <benedett@brainerd.net> wrote in message

>> news:447E98E5-F8D6-4DA8-B05E-79CF9983C60D@microsoft.com...

>> > Hi -

>> > Hopely someone can give some advice on this. I have a GIS server that

>> > is

>> > getting Virtual memeory errors and running slow. The server has 3 gig

>> > RAM.

>> > I checked the paging file and it is only 384MB. ouch! However, when I

>> > try

>> > to increase the size - I get a message that there is not enough space

>> > on C

>> > to

>> > increase it. I have a large D drive with 80% free space.

>> > What is my best option? should I just add a paging file to D, and

>> > leave

>> > the

>> > current one on C as it is? The Virtual memory screen is showing

>> > minimum

>> > should be 2MB - and recommended is 5374.

>> > Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated - thanks in advance

>> > for

>> > your time!

>> > --

>> > Cindy B

>>

>>