size of pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys files are more than 1GB

[chintan]

Hi,

I have XP - PRO SP2, with P4 and 1GB RAM. I see following
two files are growing so fast.
pagefile.sys (1.5GB)and hiberfil.sys (1GB)
Anybody know why it is growing so fast and is there a way
I can take back of those files and create some space on
drive? Will that big size effect system performance?
Thanks,
Chintan

 

[peter]

Hiberfil.sys is your hibernation file....if you turn hibernation off the file
will disappear.
peter

 

[Guest]

you can also reduce the page file. just out of curiosity-do you have system
restore enabled?

 

[Rock]

Hi,

I have XP - PRO SP2, with P4 and 1GB RAM. I see following
two files are growing so fast.
pagefile.sys (1.5GB)and hiberfil.sys (1GB)
Anybody know why it is growing so fast and is there a way
I can take back of those files and create some space on
drive? Will that big size effect system performance?
Thanks,
Chintan

The hiberfil.sys file size is equal to that of installed RAM. It's the
file created when the computer is put in hibernate. No way to change
that, except on using hibernate.

 

[Guest]

They're growing? The hibernation file should be the size
of your RAM. It shouldn't grow or shrink. The size of
your virtual memory is under your control. 1.5 times
your real memory is a common default but you can set it
larger or smaller and make it dynamic or fixed.

 

[Rod]

Hi

hiberfil.sys is your hibernation file go into control
panel and turn it of to remove this file

and pagefile.sys is your well pagefile
all ths does is give windows room to use as virtuall
memory seems a little large though to change the size
right click on my computer then go to properties then go
to advanced then under proformance click settings then
click advanced again then at the bottom of the screen you
will see virual memory
click change if you want to change the size or let
windows manage it.

good luck

 

[Guest]

I would disable hibernation, create a respectable page file of 1gb and make
it static.
however if you are short on disk space, you might want to try making it even
smaller. With 1gb of ram you should be fine.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have XP - PRO SP2, with P4 and 1GB RAM. I see following
two files are growing so fast.
pagefile.sys (1.5GB)and hiberfil.sys (1GB)
Anybody know why it is growing so fast and is there a way
I can take back of those files and create some space on
drive?

Hiberfil.sys is the file that the content of RAM is dumped to if you
hibernate, so it is that size. If you do not use hibernation, go to
Control Panel, Power Options and on the Hibernate page uncheck the
Enable box, Apply and the file will vanish.

pagefile.sys is the page file used to support Virtual memory.. It needs
to be able to grow large, but an initial size that large (which is what
System Managed will set) is grossly excessive. Read up at my page
www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm I would suggest setting initial size to
100MB, leave the max way up, and used the tool linked from that page to
assess how much real use the file gets.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your reply. I do not have system restore
problem. I see there is one service ( from windows task
manager) svchost.exe is running 10 instances. I startup
my system as selectice startup and not loading any
additional programes ( other than necessary one nortan
antivirus, microsoft services, ect..) That is the only
one problem I see right now. Do you know why there is so
many instances of same service?

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your quick reply. It helped. Actually I
cahnged vertual settig to use high space, when I had less
memory on my machine, but after that I changed it to
manage by windows option( when I put 1GB ram), but it is
not releasing any space from that file. Do you know what
is normal size of that file? If I reduce allowed space
from that option will change file size or will create
some problem ( system instable)?
Thanks again for your help.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your quick reply.
If I select no paging file option will it remove that
file or Can I remove that file manually ( ofcourse after
taking back of that file)? I tried to change maximum size
to 1GB and when I see it agin, it shows me NO paging file
selected automatically. I have plenty of ram and I would
like to use that ram rather than using paging, I think
that will increase my system performance as well (
right?). Do you have any idea?

Thanks again for your quick reply.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for nice information. As far as it wont keep
growing, I am fine. I thought it will be keep growing.
Thanks agian.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your quick reply.
I put VM to big size when I did not had enough RAM, but I
put 1GB RAM and I would like to reduce that file size if
it is possible. I tried to put less value in virtual
memory setting, but it is changing that value to no page
file option. Do you know how it will effect system if I
use no page file option?

 

[Guest]

Thanks Peter for your quick reply. I got same information
from other people and if I remove that option it vanish
that file. It helped.

 

[Guest]

I think it growed because I added RAM to my system, but I
did not know that RAM will change the side of files, so
it make sense, that it will not grow without adding
aditional RAM to system.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Thanks for your quick reply.
I put VM to big size when I did not had enough RAM, but I
put 1GB RAM and I would like to reduce that file size if
it is possible. I tried to put less value in virtual
memory setting, but it is changing that value to no page
file option. Do you know how it will effect system if I
use no page file option?

Do NOT do that. You should be able to select Custom, then have Initial
100, max say 1000 and click Set. Turning page file off means that pages
that programs ask for and never actually use have to be assigned to RAM,
locking it out, rather than to 'potential' file space as defined by the
max value. And such pages easily add up to hundreds of MB. Also there
*are* programs - notably Photoshop - that grab a chunk of page file in
order to manage it themselves. Which is highly deplorable, but if you
want to use such you have to make the initial size big enough for them