@awokd On Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 8:44:31 PM UTC+1, awokd wrote: > On Sun, February 4, 2018 5:23 pm, Yuraeitha wrote: > > > Another user in another Qubes 4 Win7 thread somewhere in Qubes-users > > mail-list, suggested to reduce the page-file for Windows SWAP inside the > > Windows VM. It worked for him, and when I tried it out, it worked for me > > too. It's possible this is what you encounter, try reduce the Windows > > page-file and see if it works? > > That was yours truly. I think it's more the act of setting the swap file > to a fixed size (of 1GB) that helped stabilize mine, but maybe you're > right and it's actually the size reduction.
ohh, I apologize for forgetting your name at that time, back then most people were still strangers to me, and it takes a while for me to remember names. But I know I won't forget your name again now as I already remember it since a few topic discussions between back then and now ^.^ About the page-file size, I'm not sure either. I tried to restore a new Windows 7 backup again, and I tried giving the page-file 1.1GB as well as 2GB, to see if it would become unstable. It seems it was unstable on the first restart for the lower one (the one I started with), but after the second restart it became stable. This may also be due to the change of AppVM RAM which was 4GB before changing, and was given 2GB after changing the page-file. Which further complicates it. But after these two restarts, it was pretty smooth again, like the other Win7 I have tried it on before that. However, it once again became unstable during Windows updates + using the Search-files feature in Windows 7 start menu. Perhaps this instability is related to the drive's file-system (NTFS) of different and various sorts? It seems the page-file can remove the most frequent crashes by far, but a few others can cause it too, like searching the file-system while the system is busy with something else perhaps? I have a weak CPU on this laptop though, it's an Intel Core M-5Y10c @ 800Mhz. 8GB RAM. So I haven't used a strong system to test Win7 on. Although Windows 7 aside, everything in Qubes which is within normal-use runs more or less smoothly, and Windows 7 can run almost smoothly on this poor laptop. Although I'm not yet sure if running it on a stronger machine may make Win7 more smooth, or cause less crashes. Have you ever experienced crashes while running search files on disk from the Windows menu? If so, maybe we can turn off the search function to avoid any issues? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-devel@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/82bff806-e3b7-4465-b1c0-a84e3251cd83%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
