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Page File Problems
XP SR3
I have my Page File size set at C: 640-1792 "recommended" is 1533 currently alloc. is 1453 Physical memory is 1047024 When I boot the system, it takes about 35-40 minutes to come to "ready". What I see happening is that a page file is being created that increases in size to 2.4 GB Stats: Commit Chg Total 2409004 Limit 2693532 Peak 24747636 Once this level is reached, CPU utilization drops down from 100% and the Page file is downsized to 349728K. These numbers are "typical". They are not the same from boot to boot. Any idea what is happening? This Extended CPU utilization during boot-up ie creating havoc on my computer! Thanks in advance for your help. Bob L -- Bob - Fort Worth |
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Why are you not using "System Managed Size" for your page file?
--- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Bob - Fort Worth wrote: XP SR3 I have my Page File size set at C: 640-1792 "recommended" is 1533 currently alloc. is 1453 Physical memory is 1047024 When I boot the system, it takes about 35-40 minutes to come to "ready". What I see happening is that a page file is being created that increases in size to 2.4 GB Stats: Commit Chg Total 2409004 Limit 2693532 Peak 24747636 Once this level is reached, CPU utilization drops down from 100% and the Page file is downsized to 349728K. These numbers are "typical". They are not the same from boot to boot. Any idea what is happening? This Extended CPU utilization during boot-up ie creating havoc on my computer! Thanks in advance for your help. Bob L |
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Why are you not using "System Managed Size" for your page file?
--- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Bob - Fort Worth wrote: XP SR3 I have my Page File size set at C: 640-1792 "recommended" is 1533 currently alloc. is 1453 Physical memory is 1047024 When I boot the system, it takes about 35-40 minutes to come to "ready". What I see happening is that a page file is being created that increases in size to 2.4 GB Stats: Commit Chg Total 2409004 Limit 2693532 Peak 24747636 Once this level is reached, CPU utilization drops down from 100% and the Page file is downsized to 349728K. These numbers are "typical". They are not the same from boot to boot. Any idea what is happening? This Extended CPU utilization during boot-up ie creating havoc on my computer! Thanks in advance for your help. Bob L |
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I was experimenting with different minimum and maximum sizes as well as trying to set-up page files on two drives. As you see from my numbers it appears to make no difference what the numbers are set to. (I never saw a page file on the 2nd drive either.) |
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I was experimenting with different minimum and maximum sizes as well as trying to set-up page files on two drives. As you see from my numbers it appears to make no difference what the numbers are set to. (I never saw a page file on the 2nd drive either.) |
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Bob - Fort Worth wrote:
XP SR3 I have my Page File size set at C: 640-1792 "recommended" is 1533 currently alloc. is 1453 Physical memory is 1047024 When I boot the system, it takes about 35-40 minutes to come to "ready". Not good at all. Is this recent? What antivirus program or suite do you run? Have you scanned for malware (not just viruses...)? What I see happening is that a page file is being created that increases in size to 2.4 GB That's not out of the ordinary. What is your actual pagefile *usage* (from Task Manager, Performance tab)? Stats: Commit Chg Total 2409004 Limit 2693532 Peak 24747636 Are you sure that the peak figure isn't a typo? That should only be seven digits (based upon your Total figure). If it's not a typo. it's ten times larger than it should be! Furthermore (and assuming that your peak figure is a typo), you clearly don't have enough RAM. Your Total and Peak figures are *way* above the figure for Physical Memory (1GB or RAM, correct?). I have no idea what kind of programs you run. If you don't have malware and you do in fact use memory-intensive programs, you would benefit by increasing your total RAM to 3GB. However, my guess is your PC has become infested with malware and has perhaps also become a spambot. Please see this page to deal with malware issues: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware Once this level is reached, CPU utilization drops down from 100% and the Page file is downsized to 349728K. These numbers are "typical". They are not the same from boot to boot. Any idea what is happening? This Extended CPU utilization during boot-up ie creating havoc on my computer! Probably malware. It's also possible you have a program that is configured to scan your entire hard drive with every boot. And this program is a serious resource hog. |
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Bob - Fort Worth wrote:
XP SR3 I have my Page File size set at C: 640-1792 "recommended" is 1533 currently alloc. is 1453 Physical memory is 1047024 When I boot the system, it takes about 35-40 minutes to come to "ready". Not good at all. Is this recent? What antivirus program or suite do you run? Have you scanned for malware (not just viruses...)? What I see happening is that a page file is being created that increases in size to 2.4 GB That's not out of the ordinary. What is your actual pagefile *usage* (from Task Manager, Performance tab)? Stats: Commit Chg Total 2409004 Limit 2693532 Peak 24747636 Are you sure that the peak figure isn't a typo? That should only be seven digits (based upon your Total figure). If it's not a typo. it's ten times larger than it should be! Furthermore (and assuming that your peak figure is a typo), you clearly don't have enough RAM. Your Total and Peak figures are *way* above the figure for Physical Memory (1GB or RAM, correct?). I have no idea what kind of programs you run. If you don't have malware and you do in fact use memory-intensive programs, you would benefit by increasing your total RAM to 3GB. However, my guess is your PC has become infested with malware and has perhaps also become a spambot. Please see this page to deal with malware issues: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware Once this level is reached, CPU utilization drops down from 100% and the Page file is downsized to 349728K. These numbers are "typical". They are not the same from boot to boot. Any idea what is happening? This Extended CPU utilization during boot-up ie creating havoc on my computer! Probably malware. It's also possible you have a program that is configured to scan your entire hard drive with every boot. And this program is a serious resource hog. |
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You are right - that was a typo, Correct number 2477636.
I don't understand why, at boot up, my system is creating a page file that is 2.4+ GB...it is spending a LOT of time creating the file... then, as soon as the processor gets free (utilization 100%) The page file quickly shrinks down to 512M or less. Just like blowing up a balloon and then letting it down. The time spent creating the page file is creating BIG problems! |
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You are right - that was a typo, Correct number 2477636.
I don't understand why, at boot up, my system is creating a page file that is 2.4+ GB...it is spending a LOT of time creating the file... then, as soon as the processor gets free (utilization 100%) The page file quickly shrinks down to 512M or less. Just like blowing up a balloon and then letting it down. The time spent creating the page file is creating BIG problems! |
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Bob - Fort Worth wrote:
You are right - that was a typo, Correct number 2477636. I don't understand why, at boot up, my system is creating a page file that is 2.4+ GB...it is spending a LOT of time creating the file... then, as soon as the processor gets free (utilization 100%) The page file quickly shrinks down to 512M or less. Just like blowing up a balloon and then letting it down. The time spent creating the page file is creating BIG problems! In the future, please leave the bits of the post you are responding to. Although I know what you're talking about, many others have no idea. True, chances are they can see the other posts in this thread, but sometimes posts don't show up for any number of reasons. As I stated in the other post, some program or programs are requiring tons of memory. Since you don't have enough physical memory, it is "paging out" its memory needs to the hard drive (where the pagefile is located). The "time spent" is actually a *symptom* of your problem, which is probably malware. |
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Bob - Fort Worth wrote: You are right - that was a typo, Correct number 2477636. I don't understand why, at boot up, my system is creating a page file that is 2.4+ GB...it is spending a LOT of time creating the file... then, as soon as the processor gets free (utilization 100%) The page file quickly shrinks down to 512M or less. Just like blowing up a balloon and then letting it down. The time spent creating the page file is creating BIG problems! In the future, please leave the bits of the post you are responding to. Although I know what you're talking about, many others have no idea. True, chances are they can see the other posts in this thread, but sometimes posts don't show up for any number of reasons. As I stated in the other post, some program or programs are requiring tons of memory. Since you don't have enough physical memory, it is "paging out" its memory needs to the hard drive (where the pagefile is located). The "time spent" is actually a *symptom* of your problem, which is probably malware. |
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