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no, with that much ram it doesnt make sense to have that large of page file. I have a couple sql servers running 16GB of ram. the page file is set to 2Gb with max of 6. It never goes over 2GB from all of my expierence. You can set the minimum at 2GB and see if it increases, but i doubt it will unless you can somehow really stress the system.
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no, with that much ram it doesnt make sense to have that large of page file. I have a couple sql servers running 16GB of ram. the page file is set to 2Gb with max of 6. It never goes over 2GB from all of my expierence. You can set the minimum at 2GB and see if it increases, but i doubt it will unless you can somehow really stress the system.

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That's what I thought. &nbsp;I set it to 5 GB on a separate volume.<br />
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Anybody else care to give his/her input?
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That's what I thought.  I set it to 5 GB on a separate volume.

Anybody else care to give his/her input?

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Hi, I'm building a W2k8 x64 server with 16GB of RAM. &nbsp;Now I know the 1.5 - 3x &quot;rule of thumb&quot; for page file size, and Windows has set it to 16 GB by default with a 24 GB recommended size, but a 16 - 24 GB page file just seems wrong to me. &nbsp;Do I really want that much data being paged out to a dog slow spindle? &nbsp;This server will be running MS SQL 2008 as well.<br />
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What say yous?
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Hi, I'm building a W2k8 x64 server with 16GB of RAM.  Now I know the 1.5 - 3x "rule of thumb" for page file size, and Windows has set it to 16 GB by default with a 24 GB recommended size, but a 16 - 24 GB page file just seems wrong to me.  Do I really want that much data being paged out to a dog slow spindle?  This server will be running MS SQL 2008 as well.

What say yous?

Page file size for 16GB server?

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