hiberfil.sys

[Steve]

Just being cautious. How safe is it to just delete 'hiberfil.sys'? With
only a 20Gb 'C' drive I'd like to grab back the 786kb it's using. Is it
advisable to turn off hibernation first?

Also regards the 'page file', how much of an advantage/disadvantage would a
typical user see by moving if of 'C' to 'D'. The drives in question being
20Gb and 120Gb drives installed as master and slave on IDE 1. EDI 2 has DVD
ROM and DVD writer.

All input welcome.

TIA

Steve

 

[db]

every system is different.

turning off hibernation and or
deleting the file won't cause you
any problems.

moving the pagefile to another
partition wont either.

basically, you'll just have to fine
tune your system for it's optimum
performance.

ps: pagefile should be 2.5 times the
size of your installed ram.
Just being cautious. How safe is it to just delete 'hiberfil.sys'? With
only a 20Gb 'C' drive I'd like to grab back the 786kb it's using. Is it
advisable to turn off hibernation first?

Also regards the 'page file', how much of an advantage/disadvantage would a
typical user see by moving if of 'C' to 'D'. The drives in question being
20Gb and 120Gb drives installed as master and slave on IDE 1. EDI 2 has DVD
ROM and DVD writer.

All input welcome.

TIA

Steve

 

[Zilbandy]

ps: pagefile should be 2.5 times the
size of your installed ram.

Not necessarily so. I suggest you take a look at this article:
"Virtual Memory in Windows XP" by Alex Nichol
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

Here is a quote from that page:

<BEGIN QUOTE>
How big should the page file be?
There is a great deal of myth surrounding this question. Two big
fallacies are:

1) The file should be a fixed size so that it does not get fragmented,
with minimum and maximum set the same

2) The file should be 2.5 times the size of RAM (or some other
multiple)

Both are wrong in a modern, single-user system. A machine using Fast
User switching is a special case, discussed below.
<END QUOTE>

 

[Steve]

Not necessarily so. I suggest you take a look at this article:
"Virtual Memory in Windows XP" by Alex Nichol
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

Here is a quote from that page:

<BEGIN QUOTE>
How big should the page file be?
There is a great deal of myth surrounding this question. Two big
fallacies are:

1) The file should be a fixed size so that it does not get fragmented,
with minimum and maximum set the same

2) The file should be 2.5 times the size of RAM (or some other
multiple)

Both are wrong in a modern, single-user system. A machine using Fast
User switching is a special case, discussed below.
<END QUOTE>

Thanks to you both for the replies. Experimenting with a new page file
config, will tweak over a couple of weeks to see what appears best.

 

[db]

of course,

i wanted to include the
word "typically"

but i didn't want to add
additional mud to the already
muddy waters i was trying to help
clear up...

- db

ps: pagefile should be 2.5 times the
size of your installed ram.

Not necessarily so. I suggest you take a look at this article:
"Virtual Memory in Windows XP" by Alex Nichol
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

Here is a quote from that page:

<BEGIN QUOTE>
How big should the page file be?
There is a great deal of myth surrounding this question. Two big
fallacies are:

1) The file should be a fixed size so that it does not get fragmented,
with minimum and maximum set the same

2) The file should be 2.5 times the size of RAM (or some other
multiple)

Both are wrong in a modern, single-user system. A machine using Fast
User switching is a special case, discussed below.
<END QUOTE>