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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So if I understand correctly, the page file recommendations come from:
A) The need to accomodate the potential scenario in which the memory manager is triggered to page the entire working set of all of the processes to disk.
B) The need to accomodate leaky applications that might run the server out of memory. By having a huge page file we can fill both the server RAM and the pagefile before we have to deal with the problem.
Thank you for clarifying exactly what the concerns are that have lead to this recommendation. That will help me weigh the costs of consuming that much disk space with the potential risks to my environment.
A) The need to accomodate the potential scenario in which the memory manager is triggered to page the entire working set of all of the processes to disk.
B) The need to accomodate leaky applications that might run the server out of memory. By having a huge page file we can fill both the server RAM and the pagefile before we have to deal with the problem.
Thank you for clarifying exactly what the concerns are that have lead to this recommendation. That will help me weigh the costs of consuming that much disk space with the potential risks to my environment.