agreed... im just wondering if anyone has any thoughts as to WHY the
previous admin might have done that?  ha.

J


Original Message:
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From: Erik Goldoff [email protected]
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:43:17 -0400
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: printer server paging file


+1 on excessive.

With 8gb of RAM, I'd set min and max both to 8gb too, to avoid file
fragmentation, and be done with it.  I don't see how a 24gb page file can do
anything but cause performance issues and consume unnecessary drive space.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Christopher Bodnar <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Seems very excessive. One of our print servers is a VM with 2G RAM and a
4G
> pagefile, it has over 400 printers and is very heavily used. No issues.
>
> YMMV
>
> Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP
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> From:        "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> To:        "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]
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> Date:        10/14/2011 10:47 AM
> Subject:        printer server paging file
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Okay, this isn't something I've seen before.
>
> Inherited a print server.  It has 7 network printers.  There doesn't seem
> to be an extraordinary amount of printing going on (read: minimal).  The
> server has 8GB of memory (2008 R2).  Strangely enough, the paging file
> minimum is set at 24,000 and maximum at 36,000.  Anyone have thoughts as
to
> why such a large paging file?  I've never seen anything like this before,
> ha.  Not on a hardly-used server with 8GB of memory.  Just curious...
>
> J
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