Partitioning Server 2003 with basic disk

Goldmember

I'm taking a look at are Win2003Server and we have 3 partitions...

Sys
Data
Swap


The Swap drive is 150% the size of our memory, which is recommended by some professionals.

Do we need a designated swap drive?

For some reason our Swap drive keeps showing "out of space" and I want to know why...

Thank you

Goldmember

sprkymrk

You don't "have" to have a seperate swap drive, but it's a good performance booster according to some. If it's only a seperate partition and not a seperate drive, about the only gain you will get is by having less fragmentation of your drive.

If you are getting "out of space" errors you can:

1. Add more physically memory.
2. Create another page file on another drive.

I also always recommend setting at least a small page file on your system drive (C:), and you can make it a static size, like 128MB-128MB or something. The reason for this is if the other dirve with the page file fails, Windows might not boot as it needs at least a 20MB page file for some reason, regardless of how much physical memory you have.

Vogon Poet

Try: http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

You won't get a **** file if your system should crash when your page file is on another partition.