[dba-VB] Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Mar 23 07:30:13 CDT 2012


 > Still not really sure what is best.

LOL.  And this article while very detailed only makes the situation more complicated.

 > What do you do?

Basically the 1.5 times rule seems to encompass (be bigger than) what this article prescribes, 
though the blog is so data intensive that it is tough to really get a handle on it.

I just use the 1.5 times rule.  In fact I use "system managed" on a drive that will always have 
enough room to contain a page file of that size.



John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 3/23/2012 6:41 AM, Mark Breen wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> very interesting.
>
> I looked my PC today and I am using 2.7 GB out of 12 GB.  Page file is 12
> GB.  No page file for Drive D where I hold my data.
>
> Should I allow windows to manage the page file ?
> Should I turn off paging ?
>
> Still not really sure what is best.
>
> What do you do?
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 20 March 2012 12:02, jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>  wrote:
>
>> Just something I ran across.
>>
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>>
>> Reality is what refuses to go away
>> when you do not believe in it
>> http://blogs.technet.com/b/**markrussinovich/archive/2008/**
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