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Pagefile.sys consuming much of C: drive ?

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I have just finished upgrading my physical server with additional RAM totalling 32 GB now.

C: drive is just running 2x 72 GB RAID-1 hence it is 68 GB formatted as NTFS

Now I'm getting disk space alert on C: drive because the pagefile.sys is now 32 GB !

How can I turn it off or reduce the size to create some more disk space ?
This physical box is running SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition.
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Click Start, type Advanced System Settings then to the Advanced tab You can change Virtual disk settings here. Try 16 GB to see if that works to help you with space.
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Is there any impact if I reduce it to just say... 4 GB ?
It depends on what is running. If no memory intensive applications (like Exchange) then you should be fine.

Try 4 GB and see. If you get excessive paging or slow performance, up it to 8 GB and try again.
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It is running SQL Server, so the memory is awlays used 100% when looking at the Task Manager | Performance tab.
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