Our Exchange server, running server 03 with 4 gigs of ram, is showing between 4 and 6 gigs of paging in the task manager. We rebooted the server on thursday but task manager is still showing the same amount of paging occurring. We're supporting less than 100 users, all using Outlook from office'03 or '07. I just wanted to know if this was normal, or if it sounds like we have a memory leak or something. what is a normal range for paging in Windows Server 2003 running Exchange?

Curious. How is it you are seeing 6gig for pagefile? 4gig is max. What is your pagefile set to for size? Having a pagefile and having a pagefile used are two different things. What is telling you 4-6gig is used? Imagine the power if you knew how to internet search

the page file is set to 2-4 gigs, but the performance tab in the task manager is showing PF Usage consistently over 5gigs.

It can't exceed 4gig no matter what is telling you the info. After all max is 4gig for the pagefile right? So the PF monitor is saying 6gig? This would lead me to think you have MULTIPLE pagefiles. Look at your pagefile configuration. I recommend against multiple pagefiles unless you have a hardware config that supports it. What other programs are you running besides Exchange? Antispyware/spam software? Imagine the power if you knew how to internet search

I knew that Windows XP and server '03 could only recognize 4gigs of physical ram, but I didn't know there was an upper limit on the page file. I avoid multiple pagefiles as well. However, the exchange server only has one pagefile, on the C drive, and is set to between 2 and 4 gigs. We have McAffee On-Demand scanning taking place on all of our servers, but I checked several others and their pagefiles were all less than a gig. I also checked the taskmanager on the exchange server after hours (when people wouldn't be using email), but the PF Usage is still reporting about 5.5GB constantly.