Pagefile on Server Core

[rye8261]

My main hyper-v server runs server core and has 48GB of memory. It has 2 x 72gig drives in raid 1 and for some reason, the page file is taking up 48GB of those drives. Do i really need a page file with that much memory in the server?

This server is just for Hyper-V and is part of a cluster for live migrations.

 

[mrdenny]

If you want the ability to take a full memory dump in the event of a system problem with the host, then yes.

No matter how much RAM you have, you'll want to have a page file.

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