Hi. I am using Windows XP RC2, and

[assailer]

Hi. I am using Windows XP RC2, and I did a clean stall on a 3GB driver. When I look around, I saw that my pagefile.sys is 768MB, and I also have another fil, hiberfil.sys is 523MB. This is too much. I have 512MB RAM, so I dont get it why windows put such big files. What is hiberfil.sys, and can I disable it in some way?

 

[Karl Blessing]

from the looks of it, if you have 512megs, and the hiber file is the same size, it looks like your Cache Copy of your Physical Rams, so that when you go into Hibernate mode, it can just shut down most of the PC, but keep the same memory instance going by Dumping it straight to the harddrive.

The other file PageSys, it's been used since Win95 (if not even win3.1 which i think was just nothing more than a swp) I belive it works with your Swap space, for any storage beyound your rams, the swap files are usally permenetly set to a certain size, and are not resized dynamically, to avoid any fragmentation from use. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[mventour]

assailer, my copy of RC2 is missing all the cab files from the i386 directory.

how can i get a copy from you?
feel free to e-mail me. If you sting me, I won't mind.

 

[a073235]

Everything Karl says is correct. Don't touch the paging file, but if you don't use the hibernation feature disbale it from Control Panel\Power Management... Heath
Principal Systems Engineer
Desktop and Mobile Platforms

 

[dilettante]

I'm still scratching my head over a system with 512MB of RAM and a 3GB HD, yet a question like "what's the pagefile and hiberfile for?"

Best advice to this user may be to pull out some of the excess RAM.