How to setup the paging file (virtual memory) correctly on Windows Server 2012

Question

I am trying to create 10GB virtual memory on my Windows Server 2012 R2 machine.

I have a 40GB SSD disk.

I've done it already, but at last I see that I have 10GB only available from my 40GB disk... when I remove the virtual memory I get 29GB free of 40GB.

I put 10240 in both the Initial size (MB) and Maximum size (MB) fields.

Am I doing it correctly?

Answer 1

Some articles are explaining what are the function of each of the "Initial size" and the "Maximum size" boxes.

Like this article: https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000002245

On step 7 (see the bold text below):

Select Custom size and set Initial size (MB) and Maximum size (MB). For the initial size, Microsoft recommends using the recommended value in the Total paging file size for all drives box.

And for the "Maximum size" you should put 10240 (10GB as you wanted).

Now, you should see that you have like 26GB free of your 40GB disk :-)