Re^2: how to refresh Pagefile size in windows 2003 server

Thanks for valuable reply. I understood your comments. My server contains 4 GB RAM. If the page file size is around 3.5 GB then the server was hanged. page file size 400 MB when the server is restarted. Is there any option to reduce this page file usage automatically or clear page file while running the server. Thanks Suresh

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Re^3: how to refresh Pagefile size in windows 2003 server by cdarke (Prior) on Sep 16, 2009 at 13:38 UTC
Is there any option to reduce this page file usage automatically or clear page file while running the server. This is a Microsoft Windows system administrator's question. My guess is: "no chance". If you reduced the page file size then what would you expect to happen with the data that is lost? Windows cannot guess which areas of memory you no longer need, that is up to the programmer (you).	[reply]
Re^3: how to refresh Pagefile size in windows 2003 server by marto (Cardinal) on Sep 16, 2009 at 14:07 UTC
I don't think you quite understand exactly what the pagefile is. I'd suggest doing some reading (starting with RAM, Virtual Memory, Pagefile and all that stuff and moving on from there if required) before messing around with any of these settings. I've only ever seen the pagefile being purged on reboot (set up via a registry key), the argument for this was to clear out any unencrpyted data which may have been stored there by certain applications. Martin	[reply]