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Paging File
Name: Ryan Date: December 7, 2000 at 07:42:29 Pacific
Comment:
I just started this admin job and decided to add more RAM to the main file server. I went to change the Paging File size accordingly and discovered there is not nearle enough free space to allocate. What can I do? Can you pick another drive to allocate for this? Its the C: drive it defaults (boot sector right)??? Please help.
Name: sander Date: December 7, 2000 at 07:54:40 Pacific
Reply:
When you add a HD, it will be automatically listed in the Virtual Memory settings window in the System properties. You can then allocate space on this new drive to the pagefile. Having your pagefile on a different drive than the OS is a major performance booster!
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Response Number 2
Name: T-1 Date: December 7, 2000 at 08:04:24 Pacific
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Check and clean out C:. I'm like you, having started at a new place, no one ever had did in maintenance on C: I found 100s of megs of tmp files and unnecessary log files.
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Response Number 3
Name: Steve Date: December 7, 2000 at 18:57:23 Pacific
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You say it's drive C:...are there other paritions available, Drive D, F etc??? If so, split your page file up on the various drives...right click My Computer, Properties, Performance Tab...Change in the virtual memory section...you will see a listing of all drives....choose each drive, or partition, except the system partition, (C:)...add 11 to your base memory...say you have 128 meg of RAM, the initial size shoule be 139 meg...then make the page size a total of, say about 160 meg...let's say you have 4 partitions...do the same on each partition...best way to do it...
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