Low virtual mem after standby or hibernate

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Cliff T

After restoring my laptop from standby or hibernate mode,
I noticed that the level of disk activity (assumedly to
my pagefile) is extremely high, essentially precluding
the use of any other programs. Sometimes I get a "low
virtual memory" message too. I have 256mb RAM and had no
programs (other than the usual startup TSRs) running when
I entered standby/hibernate mode. Pagefile size is set
to 350-1000mb, with the minimum typically allocated.

Can anyone help me understand why this problem is
occurring and what I can do about it? Thanks.
 
Do you know if you are using S1 or S3 standby, S1 is turn off monitor and
disk, S3 is suspend to RAM. Its normally a setting in power management in
the bios.

I could understand the disk activity on resuming from hibernate which is
suspend to disk, (uses the hiberfil.sys file), not too sure why its hitting
the disk when resuming from standby.

Standby doesn;t appear to use the pagefile.sys since this system I'm working
on, for testing, doesn't currently have a page file, and goes into and
resumes from standby fine.

Paul
 
Thanks for your suggestion, but I don't think that is the
problem - I have over 3gb free.

I did try letting the system manage the pagefile size
rather than me specifying an initial and maximum size.
That seems to have helped reduce the amount of excessive
disk drive activity.
 
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