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I configure page file, x 1.5 of memory. if I let Windows manage it, Users had Citrix WEM popup complaining about low memory. I am 100% in Azure, so not really any cost for me to configure page file either so

How is Azure treating you? Is it the official Citrix in Azure offering or are you just managing citrix boxes in Azure manually?

Citrix Cloud, just using the backplane, self manage Storefront, ADC and VDA. Been running it for 4-5 years now, no big issues, moved to Citrix Cloud last year, before that everything self managed

so this https://www.citrix.com/products/citrix-cloud/

I still configure the page file size to a static value.

We have some really wide 2019 session hosts (HSD). So we have 64GB of RAM on these, we can not do 1.5x memory realistically, but Windows certainly wasn't setting it appropriately, because the writable disk size was causing the equation to make a smaller size page file. After about a week (we were keeping sessions a week long on purpose to test this), the virtual memory was exhausted and it spiraled out of control 🙂 We ended up landing on 16-32GB for a 64GB system. We watched the perfmon counter for commited virtual memory I think and we never pushed too high, I think when windows handled it, it was setting it to like 5-10GB

I think that is my exact issue. thanks

I think that its the same product, its just Citrix weird sales teams, that try to ride on the Microsoft AVD/WVD train. They are saying that they add more features to AVD, but they are not really doing that, they add to Windows 10/11 Multi users, but not for AVD. So they way we are using Citrix Cloud, instead of Citrix Studio, we use the Citrix Cloud portal, Citrix manage SQL and licensing. Rest is managed by us.

For me I set it as well. It all ties into these technologies 1. For WEM memory management if used. 2. PVS/MCS and write cache. 3. Standard machine, point to D but I don't give it all its space it wants. I also do memory dumps space.

Every time I set it to automatic it would sit at 4gb and never expand so I got sick of it and set them all to 20gb static. Expanding the page file is a huge drain on resources too so static is best