Slow resume from hibernate

[Mr. Pedantic]

I'm running on Windows XP SP3, 32-bit. The problem I have is that the time it takes for the PC to hibernate is much longer than the time it takes to do a cold boot:

Hibernate: 12s
Restore to logon screen: 1:28s

Shutdown: 15s
Boot to logon screen: 50s

I'm running everything off a single WD Caviar Blue 640GB drive, the hiberfil.sys is 3,397,748KB in size.

So the OS writes all the data in RAM to the hiberfil.sys file on the hard drive, right? And then when it restores, the data gets reread from the hard drive back into RAM and the system goes back to normal? So why does it take so long?

The hard drive is freshly defragged, according to JKDefrag hiberfil.sys is in one contiguous block, so it's not hugely fragmented or anything.

Any help is welcome. Thanks!

 

[PeteRoy]

Try and see what happens with only 2GB of RAM, maybe Windows XP Hibernate is not well written for 4GB RAM.

 

[SimMike2]

IMHO, the power saving settings of XP are extremely primitive, especially compared to Windows 7 and even Vista. They are flaky at best.

 

[JackMDS]

The Hibernation of Win XP on Desktops was always "iffy".

In general Hibernation is Not a big time Boot saver since it boots from Off.

Its main advantage is to restore Open set of applications to the way it was before.

Under certain condition it can pose issues because of the Jump in clock time between the Off time, and the current clock time.

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[SanDiegoPC]

The Hibernation of Win XP on Desktops was always "iffy".


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In every single case, I disable hibernation on XP computers when I work on them. It does not work right.