Swap file size nowadays?

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What is the recommendation for swap file size nowadays?
Does the 1.5 times the amount of physical RAM recommendation still stand
with todays big servers.
I have windows 2003 servers in a cluster with 4GB RAM. Do I really need a
10GB page file?
Thanks
Jane

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Many thanks, i'll do the monitoring.

"Rob Stow" <rob.stow@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> Jane Spencer wrote:
>> What is the recommendation for swap file size nowadays?
>> Does the 1.5 times the amount of physical RAM recommendation still stand
>> with todays big servers.
>> I have windows 2003 servers in a cluster with 4GB RAM. Do I really need a
>> 10GB page file?
>> Thanks
>> Jane
>
> The standard is still 1.5 to 2 times RAM for systems with only a a
> "little" bit of RAM. For a server today, a "little bit" of RAM is 1 GB.
> However, for systems with lots of RAM, just use RAM+12, to the max of 4
> GB. If you have more than 4 GB, then put additional page files on other
> partitions until you satisfy the RAM + 12 minimum.
>
> When you have more than 1 GB of RAM, I suggest you simply monitor your
> page file usage for a while and see how much you need. If empirical max
> usage is X, then I suggest you set you page file to
> 1.5(X) - to a max of 4 GB.
>
>
> All in all, hard drive space is so cheap these days that I can't
> understand why page file space continues to be an issue with anybody.
> Just give your system lots of cheap page file space - and set min and max
> for each page size to the same value so that fragmentation issues are
> minimized.