I have notebooks with Windows XP Professional and Windows 7 Professional that are running 24x7 for months churning out heavy duty batch jobs daily, and there are no issues with those computers. No growing memory usage, no slowing down over time.
I usually have to reboot only when Windows Updates require it. So they run fine for weeks and weeks without rebooting.
However, when my notebook is Hibertated daily (when I go to bed and when I have to move from office to/from home), the performance of the PC will degrades over time. This is experienced on Windows 7 as well as the latest Windows 8 Pro.
On my Windows 8 Pro, after a week or so of on/Hibernate cycles, the PC will become very slow, even though I am using only less than 70% of 8GB of RAM. It reaches the state where, even when there are no sustained hard disk access, the painting of Microsoft
Office screens will take ages in slow motion.
Below are two typical screen shots, rendering in progress and when it settled down, when I hit Alt-F R in Excel. The black rectangles are not redacted parts (the red ones are) but the screen painting in progress. They appear to correspond to
the graphical icons in the final picture.
Does Hibernation maintain full memory fidelity when I switch on the PC again? What can I do to make the PC not lose performance. Please don't suggest shut down instead of Hibernate.
Thanks.
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I usually have to reboot only when Windows Updates require it. So they run fine for weeks and weeks without rebooting.
However, when my notebook is Hibertated daily (when I go to bed and when I have to move from office to/from home), the performance of the PC will degrades over time. This is experienced on Windows 7 as well as the latest Windows 8 Pro.
On my Windows 8 Pro, after a week or so of on/Hibernate cycles, the PC will become very slow, even though I am using only less than 70% of 8GB of RAM. It reaches the state where, even when there are no sustained hard disk access, the painting of Microsoft
Office screens will take ages in slow motion.
Below are two typical screen shots, rendering in progress and when it settled down, when I hit Alt-F R in Excel. The black rectangles are not redacted parts (the red ones are) but the screen painting in progress. They appear to correspond to
the graphical icons in the final picture.
Does Hibernation maintain full memory fidelity when I switch on the PC again? What can I do to make the PC not lose performance. Please don't suggest shut down instead of Hibernate.
Thanks.
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