Pagefile.sys file is growing on Windows 2008R2

[reezie201110141]

Hello,

The Virtual Center Server is currently sized at 40GB with a virtual disk that resides on the SAN.  The memory is sized at 4GB currently.  The issue is that we are running out of disk space (currently 7GB on the C: drive) and I noticed that the pagefile.sys file was 10GB last week and is 11GB this week so it is growing.   What is the proper method to deal with the size of this file and the situation -- delete it, move it, up the memory to 8GB, resize the drive, etc.?   The Windows Server it resides on is Windows 2008 R2.  

Thanks for the help!

Reezie

[Nikhil_Patwa]

Hi,

It looks like the RAM allocate to W2K8 R2 VM is not enough as showed by the increase in pagefile size, try to allocate more RAM to your VM and monitor.

Try scheduling reboot of your VM everyday at night maybe to free up cached memory. Is your VM running processes that require RAM?

Hope this information is useful

Nikhil

[CRad14]

You certainly can delete and move it. However, I have had instanced where just recreating it in the same location has resolved similar issues.

Also as a good precaution, check the general memory usage for the vm and see if it is balloonin or trying to max out its memory...those types of things.

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

best practice would say to size your page file at 1 1/2 times the amount of configured RAM.  With that said, we let Windows manage our page file.  As stated, if your going to the page file, you may not have enough RAM assigned.  If this is a VM, it's easy to increase the RAM as well as extend out the C: drive.  You'll need to reboot for the RAM assignment, but not the increase of the C: drive.