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Hey everyone. I have a server with a C:\ drive for the OS, and a D:\ drive for applications and data. It's running Windows Server 2008 R2.
Right now, we have a small pagefile on the C:\ drive and a larger one on the D:\ drive; this is how this server came set up by default. I did some monitoring over the last week, however, and found that the system is never even touching the pagefile - it has tons of RAM, and never even fills up 25% of it.
I want to shrink those pagefiles down to reclaim a ton of hard drive space. I'm going by Mark Russinovich's recommendations (http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx), so I already know the size I'll need.
My question is: is it necessary to leave a small pagefile on C:\ and a larger one on D:\, or should I just create a single pagefile on D:\? How does Windows fill pagefiles when there are multiple ones in existence? Ideally I'd like it to fill the big one on D:\ first, so I'm thinking if there is no real benefit to having the pagefiles spread over multiple disks, I'll just put the whole thing on D:\.
Many thanks!
