Notes On Windows - Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 User Manual

Notes on Windows

This section contains notes about operating Windows. See Compute Blade 2000
Software Guide for more information.
Memory dump in no system response
Memory dump is required to track down the cause of errors when the system does
not respond and the task stops. Memory dump is a file where data of failure on the
physical memory is saved on the hard disk and is used for tracking the status of the
system with no response and applications.
Set the memory dump to be collected for finding the cause of the error, no system
response. For Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, and Windows
Server 2003 R2, set and check as follows.
 NMI dump registry
Set the registry key on the registry editor.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl
Name: NMICrashDump
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
 Virtual memory (
Set the virtual memory following the steps below.
The procedure shown below is an example, and may not
be available with some environments. See the following
Website for further details.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969028/en-us
1 Click Start, right-click Computer, and click Properties.
2 Click Advanced system settings.
3 Click Advanced tab under the System page.
4 Click Settings under the Performance area.
5 Click the Advanced tab.
6 Click Change under Virtual memory.
7 Select a drive to set "pagefile.sys", and check that the value of Initial size and
Maximum size is the physical memory + 400 MB or over.
8 Click OK to close System, and restart Windows.
pagefile.sys)
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