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Unable to change the size of the page file

We have 2 Windows 2003 Enterprise servers setup in a cluster.
3GB Physical RAM
Want to set page file to 4606MB
It is currently set to 4096

Get the following error message when i try to change it
Enter a maximum page file size that is greater than or equal to the initial page file size, and less than 4096MB

Any ideas?

dgroscost

Sounds like you either ran into a max page value setting, or your min. setting is higher than your maximum setting. Are you doing 4096 MIN 4096 MAX?

JammyPak

4GB is that largest pagefile you can have on 2003 Std Edition - I think it's because a 32-bit program can only address a max of 4GB of RAM. If you want more paging, you can add an additional pagefile to another drive/partition if you have one.

nbishop1979

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I am doing 4096 min and 4096 max.

to answer the second response, we are using enterprise edition and have another cluster with page files of 6+GB.

Any other ideas

nbishop1979

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I finally found the answer to this one.

For a Windows 2003 machine to access more than 4GB of RAM, you need to put the /PAE switch in the boot.ini. Seemingly, this includes pagefiles as well as RAM. The reason it worked on the DL740s without the /PAE switch is when Windows 2003 sees a machine that has hot-swap DIMM slots, it enables the switch anyway, since you could add more RAM at any time without rebooting . . . .

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;255600

Thanks for all the input though.

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