No slowness at all. It would be better if you had a fat partition and for that matter on a RAID 0 but I don't have either of those. I have one page file both drives on a mirrored logical drive. The only problems I had were caused by people surfing in Internet Explorer. My company didn't want to limit where they could browse to (Except for the dirty sites) so I published each work related IE application and then published Internet Explorer for them. On the Published Application for Internet Explorer I gave the below normal CPU priority to fix that problem. Something else to note I use the Page Defrag utility found on the SysInternals website that defrags the page file nightly after a reboot. Chris -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Angela Smith Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:11 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Load Evaluator query Interesting.. I would have thought adding extra swapfiles would make the system slower as it would be swapping to disk more.. I figured, if you had 1 swapfile, once the server is fully loaded, the app would launch on a less loaded box which would increase performance Have you seen any addidional slowness with your approach? Do you have your additional swapfile on a FAT or NTFS partition? Thanks >From: <christopher.walter@xxxxxxx> >Reply-To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [THIN] Re: Load Evaluator query >Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:03:57 -0500 > >Not bad at all. I have a ton of java apps which require lots of memory >and swap file. I have a 4 gig page file and a 2 gig page file on >different drives. Works great. I balance on CPU and memory for over >140 servers and there is not one server that has more then 5 sessions >then any other server. > >If you have the option of putting a swap file on another drive or even a >different logical drive I don't see this as bad practice at all as long >as you have the free diskspace on each drive to support the page file. > >Chris > >-----Original Message----- >From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On >Behalf Of Angela Smith >Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:56 PM >To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [THIN] Re: Load Evaluator query > >Chris we run Windows 2003 Standard which will not allow Pagefiles >greater >than 4096. The only thing I could do is have multiple pagefiles but Im >sure >this is bad practice... > > > >From: <christopher.walter@xxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Subject: [THIN] Re: Load Evaluator query > >Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:51:05 -0500 > > > >Stupid question but have though about increasing your swap file size. > >Best practices is to have a least 1.5 times your RAM anyways. After >you > >do this you might find that your limiting factor on the servers is > >memory anyways. > > > >Chris > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > >Behalf Of Angela Smith > >Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:41 PM > >To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Subject: [THIN] Re: Load Evaluator query > > > >Hi > > > >Servers all have 4Gb RAM. Swap file is 4096 (min and max). 85-95% of > >swap > >gets used on all servers. We will be looking at using Appsense or > >TScale > >soon which may help reduce swap usage but for now I need to use the >best > > > >evaluators for the current environment > > > >Regards > > > > > > >From: Bob <bobmails@xxxxxxxxx> > > >Reply-To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >Subject: [THIN] Re: Load Evaluator query > > >Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 08:21:24 -0500 > > > > > >How much RAM do your servers have? How big is the swap file? How >much > >of > > >it gets used? > > > > > >That's a good rule choice, although I'd recommend retaining some user > >load > > >rule, whether it's server or application. > > > > > > > > > > > >On 1/31/07, Angela Smith <angela_smith9@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > > >>Hi > > >> > > >>Just want some input on Load Evaluators. We used a custom evaluator > >which > > >>comprised of: > > >> > > >>- CPU Utilization > > >>- Memory Usage > > >>- Server User Load > > >> > > >>We have an issue where the load is not evenly spread across the > > >>farm. 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