Pageout metrics alone aren't going to be telling enough.
Especially since most of the pages you'd be dealing with wouldn't
get paged out through the page files anyway.
You're probably right. I assumed some other things. I should have
added that the free mem will be close to 0 and the pageout number
will be increasing quickly.
Actualy Free Mem at zero is a goal state.
I'd have to disagree with you on that. Maybe I'm misinterpreting what
you've written, but I've only seen bad things happen when free mem
gets to 0. Normally any increase in load at that point leads to
thrashing in my experience. So I would never advise anyone that free
mem at 0 is a goal.
And again, pageouts only occur for pages that are paged out.
I agree completely. ;-)
ro pages like those of mail messages are unlikely candidates for
pagefiles since they already have backing store elsewhere.
I'm not sure what actually gets paged out and when, I just know from
experience that if you don't have enough RAM then pageouts will occur
and if the load on the system doesn't decrease it leads to disk
thrashing and general unhappiness for everyone trying to work off
that machine.
Regards,
Kevin
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