PageFile Management

[sghouse]

Hi Everyone, I am looking for opinions about managing page file on my server. I read somewhere it is not recommeded to have the pagefile on a raid array. Mine is currently on a raid5 array and is highly fragmented. I was thinking of moving it to another drive which is not part of the array. Would this be a good idea?

Also considering splitting pagefile across 2 or 3 drives. Is this recommended?

Thanks for any ideas.
sghouse

 

[justcurious]

From what I have read, if your SCSI drives are not all the same speed, you would do better to put one pagefile on the fastest drive rather than split it over several.

If you are going to put it on one drive, don't forget that you will not get any debugging info if a Stop error occurs, if you do not have at least 2 MB assigned to drive C:

And don't split your pagefile over multiple volumes on the same drive. This will degrade performance.

 

[8bit]

Best practice for pagefile location is on a raid5 with it's own FAT32 partition, seperate from the physical drirve that the system partition is located( ex c:\WINNT ).

This will increase the read/write access to the pagefile from the system and reduce fragmentation.