Windows 7 and virtual space

[Omar Khan]

Hello Tom's hardware community.

So I'm a bit confused about virtual space and how it works. I reinstall of windows 7 on my 500gb ssd and it seems to take a little over 100 gb of my hard drive with 64 gb of it going to virtual space and like 24 gb for hibernate; so 24gb wind7 + 24gb hybernate + 64gb virtual space.

Is this virtual space taken so I cannot fill my ssd and impede the performance? what exactly is virtual space for and do I need that much?

 

[USAFRet]

How much RAM do you have?
You can turn down that pagefile (virtual) to maybe 2GB min.max

Hibernation? Turn it off completely.
These steps at the command line: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html
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A)In the elevated command prompt, copy and paste the command below, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)

powercfg -h off

 

[Omar Khan]

64gb of ram. And lol no hibernate at all.

So whats the correlation of ram to virtual memory ?

 

[USAFRet]

64gb of ram. And lol no hibernate at all.

So whats the correlation of ram to virtual memory ?

You said:

and like 24 gb for hibernate

The above command line will get rid of that 24GB for you.

The pagefile often defaults to 1.5x physical RAM. So "100GB" might be just about right.
Turn it down. 1 or 2GB min/max.

 

[Omar Khan]

Turn it to 1 gb or 2 gb total? or 1gb to 2gb per gb of ram as the min/max?

Sorry if asking this sounds redundant, just want to be sure.

 

[USAFRet]

Turn it to 1 gb or 2 gb total? or 1gb to 2gb per gb of ram as the min/max?

Sorry if asking this sounds redundant, just want to be sure.

1 or 2GB total.
That pagefile is mostly only used if you run out of physical RAM.
With 64GB actual RAM, that is unlikely.


I have 32GB RAM
This is my pagefile settings:

 

[Omar Khan]

Wow! Thanks for the screenshot. and thanks for the command line!

learned more than how to get rid of the hibernate feature, I also know not to choose discussion cause I now cannot give you the best solution which you deserve.