Re: keep IIS in RAM

Ken Schaefer wrote:

"Phil Frisbie, Jr." <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ObeMv8IPGHA.2704@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: David Wang [Msft] wrote:
:
: > How about turning off the PageFile and make sure you have enough RAM for
: > your website. Then, everything has to run in RAM.
:
: Have you EVER tried that? I have tried to disable the paging file on both
: Windows 2000 Pro and XP Pro. Both systems had 1 GB of RAM, and both showed about
: 150 MB of memory usage when freshly booted up.
:
: Neither system would boot up with the paging file disabled. They both complained
: about a lack of memory! And I could not even make it to the desktop.

Neither Windows 2000 Pro or Windows XP by itself requires more than 1GB of RAM just to boot. You must have other applications configured to run during startup or logon that are reserving or committing memory.

Ok, but you did not answer my question: Have you ever tried to disable the pagefile?

It was just 6 weeks ago that I accidentally disabled the page file on a W2K Pro system while upgrading to a larger hard drive. Like I said, when that machine booted the total commit charge was about 150 MB. This was a fairly new install, and did not have anything I would call unusual running at start up. This computer has 1 GB of RAM, and the error message box that repeatedly came up warned that virtual memory was low, and that I needed to close some applications to continue. Just 'for fun', I sat there for about 10 minutes with my finger on the return key, constantly clearing out that message box, and I never could get to the desktop.


: Of course, maybe 2000 Server or 2003 Server handles memory more intelligently....

Um, has nothing to do with handling memory more intelligently. If you run a program that reserves 500MB of RAM, and that isn't available, the program either needs to handle that, or it crashes and gets terminated by Windows.

Don't get me started on Windows memory management...

--
Phil Frisbie, Jr.
Hawk Software
http://www.hawksoft.com
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