Guest Cindy B Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 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 Chris M Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 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. -- Chris.
Guest SBS Rocker Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 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 Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 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 Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 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 Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 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 Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 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 >> >>
Recommended Posts