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A few days ago i filled completely the C (system) drive on my win7 laptop.
I didn't realize it was so full, now i deleted many things and i bought a new drive to use for data.
When the disk was full i got an error i didn't copy that said something like "HD is full, page size could now grow more than needed".
After this (and after rebooting) i have memory issues (Windows asks me to close some applications - Embarcadero RAD STUDIO XE2 and Outlook 2010 mainly - because they use too much ram).
i tried to play with page file in control panel by:
1) removing it
2) setting it as auto managed (this was the default)
3) setting it to min 16000 - max 32000
In all cases i had problems. Now I put 10000-60000 just to hope i can work 2 hours without rebooting.
Note: when i have errors page file has reached the max allowed limit.
Does anyone has a solution?
1You may have some file left over from when the problem occurred somewhere on your hard disk -- perhaps in your C:\temp folder. Look around and see what taking up all the space. If you find something that looks like junk then copy it to some other drive (or back it up somehow), delete it, and then see if things improve. – martineau – 2014-02-18T10:22:18.420
The biggest files in my HD (found with https://windirstat.info/) are Outlook pst file, a Virtual box VM + pagefile.sys (9.8MB) and hyberfil.sys (5,9 GB)
– user193655 – 2014-02-18T11:18:10.730after setting 10k-60k i still have a running machine with 10MB pagefile. – user193655 – 2014-02-18T11:19:35.383
1All thosh files look legit. How much free space do you have on the hard disk? Your page file should be at least as big as the amount of RAM you have (probably multi-GBs). You need to understand that all those memory setting are in KBs, so 10K-60K is 10-60 GB -- quite a lot and probably way too much. – martineau – 2014-02-18T12:45:54.843
I have 8 GB of RAM, 60GB is 7,5 times more i know, anyway my pc is impossible to use. I hope there is a way to fix this without reformatting. My pc was outstanding until 2 days ago. – user193655 – 2014-02-19T16:35:29.923
I noticed that from time to time dllhost.exe eats up to 4GB of Ram in my task manager/processes. What is this? – user193655 – 2014-02-19T17:18:13.527
1I'd either let Windows manage your page file size or set it to min 8K, max 12K. Also, if you disable Hibernation, it should get rid of the hyberfil.sys file. – martineau – 2014-02-19T19:59:51.400
I tried to disable hibernate as exaplined here http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html i now wait one more painful day.
– user193655 – 2014-02-20T09:46:48.2231The method explained in the sevenforum link should do the trick. I use it in a .bat script to toggle hibernation on just before it puts the system in that state (and then turn it off after it wakes up). No sense wasting all that disk space 24/7... – martineau – 2014-02-20T09:53:54.910
anyway it is not an issue of disk space, my systems slows down drastically after a few hours of usage, now i have 80GB of free HD and a pagefile managed by the system. The only strange things happened in last days are: 1) i used hibernate once, 2) my HD was full. THanks. – user193655 – 2014-02-20T09:55:42.773
no way, pc just crashed. i do bounty now. I t is the 1st time i feel win7 is worse than linux – user193655 – 2014-02-20T12:11:32.253
When you start getting these error message, could you take and post a screen-capture of the Performance tab in Task Manager? – harrymc – 2014-02-24T08:58:28.787
See the accepted answer, that wsa the solution and my pc is rocking since last week again – user193655 – 2014-03-05T08:15:54.087