Home Forums Article Discussions Article Discussions by Author Discuss content posted by Stanley Chan Can you set a pagefile more than 4GB? RE: Can you set a pagefile more than 4GB?

  • August 20, 2010 at 11:41 pm

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    Magic Man (8/20/2010)

    ab.sqlservercentral (8/20/2010)

    Magic Man (8/19/2010)

    Why set a size and constrain the memory manager in the first place?. Set the pagefile as system managed, it will be set to an initial size and can grow with extents if required.

    Because you will not get a valid memory dump in case you get a bluescreen. That's what the inital post was about.

    You will because the OS will extend the pagefile size if needed to accomodate it.

    Hi Magic Man,

    Since I did not let system manages the pagefile, I am not sure if the OS will extend the pagefile to larger or not when physical memory is larger than 4GB.

    Have you tried it?