Tweaking the Pagefile settings may help, but it may not solve your problem. I don't see an issue with 2 partitions and the pagefile created on the 2nd partition... In fact, that is what we are doing right now on the HS20s. Have you looking into why the servers are utilizing the Hard Drive extensively? Are you running into memory constraints? Is there a specific process that is using the drives extensively? You need to gather more specifics about the what is causing bottleneck before proceeding. Are the servers patched? BIOS and Firmware updated? -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rick.mattingly@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 9:46 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Question concerning some Performance issues. Recently we started experiencing extreme % disk utilization problems on all of our servers but 2. The hard drive will spike at 100% for minutes at a time. Environment: Windows 2003 MF XPe 1.0 FR3/SP3 <- looking at upgrading to SP4 this week. IBM Blades: Models 8832/8843 HS20s 2 - 36 GB drives mirrored and partition into 2 drives 2 - 3.0x GHz Processors 4 GB Memory Some of our main apps Office 2000 Pro <- All servers Lotus Notes <- Half the servers Adobe 6.02 IE obviously 2 possible suggestions have been presented and my question is have they helped in your environment? 1. Move to a single partition, 1 big 36GB C: drive. Apparently IBM is recommending this, but it doesn't make sense to me. 2. I have heard there is a way to get rid of your page file in Windows 2003 and although we currently have enough memory, applications still like to use a page file. If we got rid of the page file, the assumption is that apps would be forced to use the memory? Also, if there is any other suggestions they will be gladly appreciated. We have been living with this for about 3 weeks and we are running out of options and we can't find any differences between the 2 that are running good and the ones that are not. Thanks, Enterprise Server Team Rick Mattingly 859-363--2264 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor: eg Innovations, Inc. Enabling Proactive Infrastructure Triage eG Innovations, Inc. is the leading provider of real-time monitoring and proactive triage solutions for IT Infrastructures. http://www.eginnovations.com/egcitrix.htm ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm ThinWiki community - Excellent SBC Search Capabilities! http://www.thinwiki.com *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor: eg Innovations, Inc. Enabling Proactive Infrastructure Triage eG Innovations, Inc. is the leading provider of real-time monitoring and proactive triage solutions for IT Infrastructures. http://www.eginnovations.com/egcitrix.htm ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm ThinWiki community - Excellent SBC Search Capabilities! http://www.thinwiki.com *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm