How to make my Windows 2000 hibernate faster?

[Dmitry]

Hello
How to make my Windows 2000 Pro hibernate faster? It hibernates longer than
shuts down, about a minute? It resumes from hibernation in 15 seconds. It is
P4, 512 mb, HP dx6120m.

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Hello
How to make my Windows 2000 Pro hibernate faster? It hibernates longer
than shuts down, about a minute? It resumes from hibernation in 15
seconds. It is P4, 512 mb, HP dx6120m.

Ensure your drive is defragged.

Hibernating will take a little longer than shutdown as the machine is having
to write a replica of its physical memory on to your hard drive.

 

[Dmitry]

Thanks Steve Parry for your reply.
My home computer with p3-750 and 256 mb RAM hibernates 3 times faster.

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Thanks Steve Parry for your reply.
My home computer with p3-750 and 256 mb RAM hibernates 3 times faster.

It's half the memory of the other PC which would account for faster
hiberfile creation maybe?

 

[Dmitry]

Thanks Steve.
But my home computer with 256 mb RAM has 4 times slower CPU: p3-750 instead
of P4-3000. ?

 

[Gary Chanson]

The speed of the CPU doesn't matter. It depends on the size of memory and
the speed of the hard drive.

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[Peter in New Zealand]

Chipping in here - is that why my laptop with 512 meg of ram takes so long
to hibernate? I often wondered about that. I suppose if I were to flick off
half the ram it would take half the time - or something like that. (just
joking - I love my 512 meg). But it's an interesting thought.

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The speed of the CPU doesn't matter. It depends on the size of memory and
the speed of the hard drive.

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Thanks Steve.
But my home computer with 256 mb RAM has 4 times slower CPU: p3-750 instead
of P4-3000. ?

 

[Dan Seur]

I'll chip in too - I believe adequate size and placement (and possible
fragmentation) of the pagefile(s) are also factors. Probably of much
less importance, unless slight thrashing is involved as the system tries
to organize things.

The speed of the CPU doesn't matter. It depends on the size of memory and
the speed of the hard drive.

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[Gary Chanson]

That's probably mostly hidden by disk caching. The page file would
probably have to be quite fragmented before it made much difference.

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[Dan Seur]

My comment was something of a SWAG. I don't know exactly how MS
implemented the hibernation process, and imagination may have gotten the
better of me. I suspect there are some very inefficient ways of setting
hibernation up. I also suspect that if the OP's disk is fast and
operating at 100% with caching enabled your comment to me is spot on.

That's probably mostly hidden by disk caching. The page file would
probably have to be quite fragmented before it made much difference.

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[Dmitry]

Thanks all!
My disk is Samsung SP0812C and defragmented. The disk caching is enabled.
Does changing Windows from preinstalled XP Pro to 2000 Pro caused the slow
hibernation? The computer is HP dx6120m.