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[H]ard|Gawd
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I have a 16 GB UP Xeon workstation with Windows 2008 R2 server that constantly uses like 20-25 GB of overall memory and as a result is doing some heavy swapping. A RAM upgrade is out of question here. Currently the pagefile is on the same disk as the OS and the software running can generate multiple GB data per minute also to the single 7200rpm drive.
The system is overall unresponsive and especially during the data writeout phases it gets very slow. I plan to put the pagefile on another disk do reduce the IO to the system disk. The question I have is, what type of disk would be the best here? A SLC based SSD like the Intel X25-E, a 10k or 15k SAS disk or even a Velociraptor?
Is there a way in Windows to determine the amount of data written to and read from the pagefile over a larger period of time like 12 hours? The ressource monitor can only show near-term access.
The system is overall unresponsive and especially during the data writeout phases it gets very slow. I plan to put the pagefile on another disk do reduce the IO to the system disk. The question I have is, what type of disk would be the best here? A SLC based SSD like the Intel X25-E, a 10k or 15k SAS disk or even a Velociraptor?
Is there a way in Windows to determine the amount of data written to and read from the pagefile over a larger period of time like 12 hours? The ressource monitor can only show near-term access.