Page file issue

[bertieuk]

This is a strange thing. I boot win 2003 from an iSCSI SAN. I have a local hard drive and want to use it for swap only. I have formatted the HD and modified the swap file to point to S: drive only. The SAN boot volume is set to "No pagefile".

On reboot, a pagefile has been created on S: Drive but the C: drive also has a pagefile.sys. I can delete the pagefile manually from S: but NOT C:. This seems to suggest that the swap is still using C: only and has no reliance on S:.

I have checked the paging file options but these still look OK. The registry setting for system management look OK.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

Thx
Si

 

[Roadki11]

Did you try setting the c:\ drive to no page file?

RoadKi11

 

[bertieuk]

I did turn the swap off on C:. It is almost like the system doesn't detect the local disk when looking for the swap and creates a default swap on the SAN instead.

Does anyone know at which point the swap is checked on bootup?

Si

 

[Roadki11]

if you have lots of ram in the box and dont ever utalize it all, you could disable swap on all drives. only bad thing would be the system wouldnt have any place to write out whats in memory if the system core dumps. this is not a recommendation its just a thought.

RoadKi11

 

[Markee71]

if c: is your system drive it needs a small ( 2mb to 50mb ) swap file for assisting in system crashes

try setting thi ssize manually and see

 

[monsterjta]

Why would you want to remove the pagefile from the system partition? Without a pagefile on system partition, the machine will not produce a dump file if it should happen to crash.