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- From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
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- Subject: RE: Pagefile size and distribution guidelines desired
- Message-ID: <0096576A.1FD68220.30354@nscvax.princeton.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:13:01 GMT
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- Don Roberts <dsroberts@beckman.com> writes:
- >
- >We managed to work out getting a pair of two two gigabyte disks to replace two
- >ra92's for our set of "system" packs. By system packs, in this case, I mean
- >where we put the layered products, page files, etc. As opposed to user data
- >:-). So, for the first time in a while, we can make our page files bigger.
- >And contiguous. WHat guidelines do others use for determining the proper size
- >for pagefiles?
-
- Take the figure that AUTOGEN with FEEDBACK gives you and add blocks
- "to taste". How much you need depends so strongly on your system
- configuration and your workload that I wouldn't even attempt to tell you
- how much is enough.
-
- I have a VAXStation 3100 with 32Mb of memory and two 126,000 block
- page files, one on each disk drive. This may seem a little extreme until I
- tell you that the poor thing is driving three VT1200 and two VT1300
- X-terminals!
-
- >As we don't have a defragmentor the problem we've run into in
- >the past is that if we make them too small we are not later able to make them
- >contiguous until we can do an image backup and restore (almost never
- >unfortunately). Currently we have two 100,000 block page files each for our
- >6420 and 6520, and this is a tad small. Another thing I've never seen
- >guidelines on is number of page files. Does it do any good to put multiple
- >page files for one system on one disk?
-
- In general, no. A single, bigger, page file should work better.
- If you are having problems with "page file fragmentation", it might help.
-
- >If we have multiple page files per
- >system on several disks, but those pagefiles are on the same disks as the
- >pagefiles for other systems, isn't that just as bad?
-
- Not quite. But putting them on disks that have *no* other page
- files should provide better performance. Take those two RA92s that you
- freed up and use them for secondary paging files. The more spindles that
- share the load, the better the performance (up to a point).
-
- >
- >We're on 5.5 on our cluster.
-
-
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