Lately, we've been getting a lot of questions related to Exchange 2007 memory consumption and why Exchange uses so much of the paging file. Well, there are some valid reasons why and some misconcepti...
Published Aug 07, 2008
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Temp and Pagefile
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What do you recommend I do with these two files/directories?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197379 suggests the page file is left alone on the boot volume, but also to create another on a separate volume
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998306(EXCHG.80).aspx suggests to keep the temp directory off of transaction log luns and OS luns.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738154(EXCHG.80).aspx says “To improve performance, the TMP folder should not be on the same LUN as the page file and operating system.”
What does this all mean? The 3 documents together seem to imply there should be separate drives for the:
-OS
-tmp
-page file
-transaction log(s)
-information store(s)
It also suggests everything should be high performance, so that means so many disks.
If I load up the server with RAM can I just leave the temp and page file in the default locations on my exchange 2007 servers?
--------------------
What do you recommend I do with these two files/directories?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197379 suggests the page file is left alone on the boot volume, but also to create another on a separate volume
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998306(EXCHG.80).aspx suggests to keep the temp directory off of transaction log luns and OS luns.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738154(EXCHG.80).aspx says “To improve performance, the TMP folder should not be on the same LUN as the page file and operating system.”
What does this all mean? The 3 documents together seem to imply there should be separate drives for the:
-OS
-tmp
-page file
-transaction log(s)
-information store(s)
It also suggests everything should be high performance, so that means so many disks.
If I load up the server with RAM can I just leave the temp and page file in the default locations on my exchange 2007 servers?