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Extremely large pagefile.sys
Name: Harold de Vries Date: December 21, 2001 at 05:38:00 Pacific
Comment:
Is it normal to have a pagefile.sys of 768 MB and a hiberfil.sys of 511 MB? I don't mind it using the space, but I was just wondering. It seems very large in a system with 512 Meg of Ram.
Name: Greg Elsass Date: December 21, 2001 at 06:18:22 Pacific
Reply:
That sounds about right for the swap file. The maximum size should be 1 1/2 times the size of available memory.
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Response Number 2
Name: Lucid Date: December 21, 2001 at 08:39:20 Pacific
Reply:
Your hiberfil.sys is for your Hibernation. It has to be as large as your memory so it can store all the info in memory when you turn the system off.....
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Response Number 3
Name: Frank Date: February 7, 2002 at 19:46:36 Pacific
Reply:
can the hiberfil.sys file be deleted? and if so will it recreate itself? mine is fragmented into two pieces and I want to make it one but system cant defrag it together....
thanks for any help
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Response Number 4
Name: Doogs Date: February 8, 2002 at 10:45:12 Pacific
Reply:
Turn hibernation off (Control Panel, Power), defrag, then re-enable it. It probably won't let you delete the file (I've never tried) but turning hibernation off will get rid of it.
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