Recommended Page File size for 2 gig of ram?

[Abunai]

Upgrading to 2 gigs soon. Is there a consensus or common preference for Page File allocation with this amount of ram?

 

[drag]

Same thing with all sizes of ram.. let the OS handle it.

Or make it small if your worried about the lost disk space.

 

[Sunner]

If you can afford 2 GB of RAM you can probably afford a TB of diskspace

 

[Deinonych]

This is a common question, and there appears to be no "correct" answer. I've heard different opinions about what the "best" pagefile size is. You may have to experiment with different settings to see which gives you the best results. That said, the rule of thumb is to set your pagefile size to 1.5x your system RAM. However, with 2GB of RAM, you may find that you can use a smaller pagefile and improve performance. I have mine set at 1GB min/1GB max and have had no problems with resource allocation or performance. I have 2GB of RAM in my system.

Just be sure that your pagefile isn't fragmented, or you'll get performance degradation. The best way to ensure an unfragmented partition is to delete your pagefile (reboot), defrag the pagefile drive and reset your pagefile size.

There are a number of pagefile articles out there as well. Just Google "pagefile optimization guide" or something similar and you should get quite a few results. Hope that helps.

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: Deinonych
This is a common question, and there appears to be no "correct" answer. I've heard different opinions about what the "best" pagefile size is. You may have to experiment with different settings to see which gives you the best results. That said, the rule of thumb is to set your pagefile size to 1.5x your system RAM. However, with 2GB of RAM, you may find that you can use a smaller pagefile and improve performance. I have mine set at 1GB min/1GB max and have had no problems with resource allocation or performance. I have 2GB of RAM in my system.

Just be sure that your pagefile isn't fragmented, or you'll get performance degradation. The best way to ensure an unfragmented partition is to delete your pagefile (reboot), defrag the pagefile drive and reset your pagefile size.

There are a number of pagefile articles out there as well. Just Google "pagefile optimization guide" or something similar and you should get quite a few results. Hope that helps.

good info

 

[theMan]

with that much ram, you shouldnt have a very big page file. no more than 1.5x

 

[dphantom]

3-2 or 2-1 ratio depending on total RAM is good rule of thumb. Most of my servers have 4GB RAM and I use a 2gb paging file. Performance is fine.

Amounts will differ based on each network and the traffic and server loads etc...

 

[Abunai]

Originally posted by: Sunner
If you can afford 2 GB of RAM you can probably afford a TB of diskspace

They dont call it Value Ram for nothin'.

Thanks for the info guys. I think I'll try 1 gig static for awhile and see how that goes