We have a Windows Server 2008 R2 box with 288GB of RAM. The system has created a page file about about the same size. This is expected, however, when I try to move the file to a SAN drive that is mounted as a 3TB GPT disk, the tool doesn't see all the available space. Windows reports the correct free space in every location I can look, except for the Virtual Memory GUI tool. Can someone tell me why and/or how to fix it so I can put the page file on this 3TB drive? The tool reports 203,965 MB free when the drive as over 2.5TB free.
What I am after is what performance hit is there on the remote machine I am reading a performance counter on? For example, I have a web server that reports some performance counter information on another machine. I want to know what type of performance hit the remote machine takes every time the web server tries to read a performance counter. Does this vary based on which counter you are reading? Is there a standard formula?
The reason I ask is because we have multiple people monitoring the same machine real time using performance counters. I sometimes wonder if we are contributing to the problem and adding extra load on the remote machine we are monitoring.
Thanks.