Why do I have high pages/sec?

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I need help determing why I have high pages/sec.

Server is Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition sp1
2 - Intel Xeon 3.2ghz processors
2 gig of memory
6 - 70gb drives - Raid 5 stripped across all drives

c: - 8 gig - 500 mb free
d: - 331 gb - 220 gb free

page file is 3gb and is located on the c:. I have read that the page file
shold not be on the system drive however it will not help if I move it to the
d: since all drives are raid 5.


cpu usage is very low.

This is simply a DFS file server and that is it. Several users have a drive
mapping to at least one of the directories. Will adding an additional 2 gb
of memory really help?
 
Re: Why do I have high pages/sec?

Check the disk queue length it might indicate some sort of bottleneck with
drives or the scsi card.

"mhowell" <mhowell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I need help determing why I have high pages/sec.
>
> Server is Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition sp1
> 2 - Intel Xeon 3.2ghz processors
> 2 gig of memory
> 6 - 70gb drives - Raid 5 stripped across all drives
>
> c: - 8 gig - 500 mb free
> d: - 331 gb - 220 gb free
>
> page file is 3gb and is located on the c:. I have read that the page file
> shold not be on the system drive however it will not help if I move it to
> the
> d: since all drives are raid 5.
>
>
> cpu usage is very low.
>
> This is simply a DFS file server and that is it. Several users have a
> drive
> mapping to at least one of the directories. Will adding an additional 2
> gb
> of memory really help?
>
 
RE: Why do I have high pages/sec?

Okay heres the deal, first off do switch the page file location see what that
does... Rarely it will give you a hint to the problem, It might be one of the
hard drives is going bad... RAID 5 is no good if a drive is super slow... but
what I would do is set some counters in perfmon to minitor your input/output
threads... and see where they are coming from and the lag... do this with big
file transfers on both RAIDS sets... do the same sort of scope settings on
your network card to each logical drive... Also just for basic defrag, and
do the basics... reg check, ad check, spy/ad ware, and viral... a lot of the
good stuff just eats up memory either hard drive wise or RAM... they try to
ignore the CPU, why? 'cause that's what we all look for... G/L

"mhowell" wrote:

> I need help determing why I have high pages/sec.
>
> Server is Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition sp1
> 2 - Intel Xeon 3.2ghz processors
> 2 gig of memory
> 6 - 70gb drives - Raid 5 stripped across all drives
>
> c: - 8 gig - 500 mb free
> d: - 331 gb - 220 gb free
>
> page file is 3gb and is located on the c:. I have read that the page file
> shold not be on the system drive however it will not help if I move it to the
> d: since all drives are raid 5.
>
>
> cpu usage is very low.
>
> This is simply a DFS file server and that is it. Several users have a drive
> mapping to at least one of the directories. Will adding an additional 2 gb
> of memory really help?
>
 
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