
370 5.3 Memory Optimization for Exchange 2003
should not attempt to allocate space to the detriment of other system stor-
age requirements, such as the event log. Therefore, careful partitioning of
the local system drives is required to allow events to be generated and never
overwritten (you may lose valuable information related to the events occur-
ring on your server), and, at the same time, to let the pagefile grow to the
value needed by the Exchange servers. Creating additional partitions does
not necessarily mean locating them on separate physical disks or volumes.
In fact, when most servers are now shipping with 36-GB disk drives, there
is enough ...