I am currently using a trial version of Diskeeper 2011 Server on one of our agency’s Windows 2003 Servers and it shows that the pagefile is in 771 fragments! The system has 4GB of RAM and a static pagefile size of 6GB set. Performance has suffered some mainly due to the fact that the 300GB HDD Raid array is pretty full. I’ve been cleaning files off of it and now have about 70GB free. Diskeeper does seem to be improving performance.
The problem is that this server is used 24/7 as a host to our timeclock software (along with a lot of other software) so having it down for any extended period of time causes disruption, even overnight as we have overnight staff. If I schedule a boot time defrag and reboot at 1:00 a.m., how long can I expect the PC to be down for the pagefile defrag, or is it worth it? Will defragging the pagefile increase performance noticeably?
Thanks to all the been-there-done-that pros for opinions! 🙂
