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Viewed 16k times. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The official recommendation from Microsoft, which hasn't changed since NT 4. If it's using page consistently, you need more RAM. Improve this answer. Chris S Chris S I would agree with keeping the GB disks if required. However, if the ability is there to have the mirrored GB and the price was allowed, then no harm in going with the MS recommended here. Michael Hampton k 39 39 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

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Think about it like this Community Bot 1. Sorry, but this answer is kind of a mess. Why do I have to send a dump to Microsoft? Therefore, make sure that you set the system commit limit high enough to support the system commit charge during peak usage. System-managed page files automatically grow up to three times the physical memory or 4 GB whichever is larger, but no more than one-eighth of the volume size when the system commit charge reaches 90 percent of the system commit limit.

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Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Note System-managed page files automatically grow up to three times the physical memory or 4 GB whichever is larger, but no more than one-eighth of the volume size when the system commit charge reaches 90 percent of the system commit limit.

Submit and view feedback for This product This page. Hope the additional information is helpful to you:. That is an interesting idea. Currently, our Exchange virtual hard drive is on a fast SSD drive. I use this other SSD drive for my nightly backup. But, it has plenty of room to move the page file to the other drive.

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