Question pagefile.sys is 56.4 GB on my SSD

[horstp]

My SSD is full and I was wondering what is up, so I downloaded WinDirStat to have an overview. Turns out that a whopping 25.1% of my system drive are being occupied by pagefile.sys (56.4 GB) and hiberfil.sys (19.4 GB).
What caused this and how can I "fix" it? Any ideas?

 

[rgd1101]

turn off hibernation. change the pagefile to size a set size
how much ram do you have? have hdd for storage?

 

[horstp]

That was quick... okay...

How do I turn off hibernation?

Where do I change pagefile size? Is that under "Virtual RAM"? I have that set to 32765 MB, recommended is 49147 MB and minimum is 16 MB.

I have 32 GB of RAM.

I use a 256 GB SSD for the C:\ drive and a 1 TB HDD for storage.

 

[rgd1101]

How do I turn off hibernation?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...ble-hibernation-on-a-computer-that-is-running

Where do I change pagefile size? Is that under "Virtual RAM"? I have that set to 32765 MB, recommended is 49147 MB and minimum is 16 MB.

yup, it virtual ram. unless you have app that required Virtual Ram, change it to 10000MB(1GB) is enough

 

[horstp]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...ble-hibernation-on-a-computer-that-is-running



yup, it virtual ram. unless you have app that required Virtual Ram, change it to 10000MB(1GB) is enough

Just to make sure, you said "10000MB(1GB)", but isn't 1GB only 1000/1024MB?

I'm not 100% sure. I think back in the day I tried to use SSD for virtual RAM because someone told me it was faster and I was trying to get ARMA2 to run more smoothly.

I'm also notorious for having my browser running with 500 open tabs. Is this going to lead to more frequent crashes once I turn down the maximum Virtual RAM?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Just to make sure, you said "10000MB(1GB)", but isn't 1GB only 1000/1024MB?

Set it to 1GB initial, 10GB max. With 32GB of ram, pagefile probably will never grow past initial size.

 

[rgd1101]

most modern app should know to use ram.
ARMA2 is an old title, need to test it out maybe set at constant 8GB.