[THIN] Re: Citrix - Harddisk Specification

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@gmail.com> wrote:
> The question is, is the pagefile being used that much? If so, then why?
> Overall, it still isn't going to make a difference. With RAID 0 or 1 you
> are going to be accessing two spindle on every read. Not so if they are
> operating independently. You are limiting yourself to 1 read for the
> pagefile and 1 read for the OS at any given time. And again, how many page
> fault are you encountering? If it's that big of an issue, then it's time to
> add more RAM.
>
> Joe
>
"Why" is a good question Joe :) I see nearly 40% pagefile usage when
I have over 2GB of RAM free on a 32 bit Windows 2003 server with 4GB
of RAM. Adding more RAM in my situation wouldn't help much.
Haven't tested simply putting the 2 disks in a RAID0 to see if it's
any better or worse performance wise (I might just do that though).I
do see a healthy boost going from RAID1 to no RAID/split paging disk
config though.
-Matt
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