Hibernate & Garbage Collection & Finer Points

[Guest Bob]

My oh my, the activity on this group seems to be getting thin like my

hair...

 

When you "hibernate" primarily for garbage collection ( the analog to

memory as scandisk is for disk), one would rather not have their

system take a nap. One just wants ME to clean up its used-memory and

unused memory linked lists and then let the user do what ever they

want. Unfortunately, as the name of the mode says, one will have to

hibernate until taking the few steps required to wake up from

hibernation. Those steps might easily take a minute or two. (On our

computer, I have to go get a finger nail clipper but that's another

story).

 

I know everybody (except me, apparently) has known how to put their

system into hibernation since Y2K but to allow me to be clear on how

I Quickly "collect (memory) garbage", permit me to rewrite the manual

on Hibernate:

1. Click Start then Shutdown then the Drop Down Arrow then Hibernate

then OK. At this point if one keeps a sharp eye on the Shutdown menu,

an icon resembling an Open Door appears then the screen goes black.

Hibernation has begun.

 

The way to Quick Garbage Collection is the same except, as soon as one

sees the Open Door icon, begin alternately pressing and releasing the

Space Bar about 5 times a second for about 4 seconds. The screen will

go black but for only several (about 4) seconds. Then one will first

see the monitor power LED light up, the system loud speakers will burp

and the monitor screen will come back to life. If one kept the System

Monitor utility program on during this process then they will see the

memory garbage has been taken out also.

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Hibernate & Garbage Collection & Finer Points

 

Funny that I have never experienced problems with any of my systems

including those running Win Me and with the exception of my laptop none of

them ever hibernate nor go into stand by. Hibernation is not required for

the efficient running of Win Me however uninformed fiddling with the

system is known to make it run like a slug.

--

Mike Maltby

mike.maltby@gmail.com

 

 

Bob <SierraBrother@gmail.com> wrote:

> My oh my, the activity on this group seems to be getting thin like my

> hair...

>

> When you "hibernate" primarily for garbage collection ( the analog to

> memory as scandisk is for disk), one would rather not have their

> system take a nap. One just wants ME to clean up its used-memory and

> unused memory linked lists and then let the user do what ever they

> want. Unfortunately, as the name of the mode says, one will have to

> hibernate until taking the few steps required to wake up from

> hibernation. Those steps might easily take a minute or two. (On our

> computer, I have to go get a finger nail clipper but that's another

> story).

>

> I know everybody (except me, apparently) has known how to put their

> system into hibernation since Y2K but to allow me to be clear on how

> I Quickly "collect (memory) garbage", permit me to rewrite the manual

> on Hibernate:

> 1. Click Start then Shutdown then the Drop Down Arrow then Hibernate

> then OK. At this point if one keeps a sharp eye on the Shutdown menu,

> an icon resembling an Open Door appears then the screen goes black.

> Hibernation has begun.

>

> The way to Quick Garbage Collection is the same except, as soon as one

> sees the Open Door icon, begin alternately pressing and releasing the

> Space Bar about 5 times a second for about 4 seconds. The screen will

> go black but for only several (about 4) seconds. Then one will first

> see the monitor power LED light up, the system loud speakers will burp

> and the monitor screen will come back to life. If one kept the System

> Monitor utility program on during this process then they will see the

> memory garbage has been taken out also.

[Guest Bob]

Re: Hibernate & Garbage Collection & Finer Points

 

It still runs quickly enuf - if the AV isn't running a sweep too. I

decided to look a little deeper when I switched from McAfee (5.0?) to

AVG late last Fall and AVG seemed to perform rather strangely. I put

System Monitor in the Startup folder and my eyes were opened.

 

We have had a SOHO for about 10 years including Enterprise NT4, a

couple satellite (wife says stalagmite) NT4 web servers and software

dev., and one or two win9xers. I actually thought until late last

year that winME was win2K light. I heard that was MS's original plan

and didn't hear when that changed.

 

Anyway, the winME box has been pretty lightly used - eMail, a spurt of

MovieMaking a few years back, Excel off and on (wife prefers Quicken

for financial stuff) and a smidge of PowerPoint for presentations to

some volunteers I manage. I like Excel's graphs and VB macros when I

occasionally teach math, Alg., Geom., Calc but not much of that since

last Spring, Way back I encouraged the wife and kid to use Excel and

still like to get students to use it for graphing and encourage them

to use it and macros / scripts in a term project. Also I'm tinkering

with some ideas for tutoring tools. Also out NT4 Systems pooped out

last year, dead PSU, HD crashes, what have you and can't get that

excited about their resurection. What's left is ... winME. Recently

I've been building a little Home Theater box for daughters family

using XP professional. That's about half done.

 

So my twiddling has been pretty mild - just like to look under the

hood now and then. Starting to get interested in WiFi - I want to add

that to daughter's Home Theater. I like the idea of being able to boot

from an external drive.

 

 

I don't think I've taken the wheels off our winME and philosophically

oppose the deliberate planned obsolescence which is too rampant in the

technical world. That's probably why I'm still hanging in with winME -

that and I still have a camcorder I invested $5K in a dozen years back

or so and I'm not at all sure anything else supports it (I'll try it

on XP movie maker here soon).

 

On Feb 11, 11:55 am, "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote:

> Funny that I have never experienced problems with any of my systems

> including those running Win Me and with the exception of my laptop none of

> them ever hibernate nor go into stand by.  Hibernation is not required for

> the efficient running of Win Me however uninformed fiddling with the

> system is known to make it run like a slug.

> --

> Mike Maltby

> mike.mal...@gmail.com

>

>

>

> Bob <SierraBrot...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > My oh my, the activity on this group seems to be getting thin like my

> > hair...

>

> > When you "hibernate" primarily for garbage collection ( the analog to

> > memory as scandisk is for disk), one would rather not have their

> > system take a nap. One just wants ME to clean up its used-memory and

> > unused memory linked lists and then let the user do what ever they

> > want. Unfortunately, as the name of the mode says, one will have to

> > hibernate until taking the few steps required to wake up from

> > hibernation.  Those steps might easily take a minute or two.  (On our

> > computer, I have to go get a finger nail clipper but that's another

> > story).

>

> > I know everybody (except me, apparently) has known how to put their

> > system into hibernation since Y2K but to allow me to be clear on how

> > I  Quickly "collect (memory) garbage", permit me to rewrite the manual

> > on Hibernate:

> > 1. Click Start  then Shutdown then the Drop Down Arrow then Hibernate

> > then OK. At this point if one keeps a sharp eye on the Shutdown menu,

> > an icon resembling an Open Door appears then the screen goes black.

> > Hibernation has begun.

>

> > The way to Quick Garbage Collection is the same except, as soon as one

> > sees the Open Door icon, begin alternately pressing and releasing the

> > Space Bar about 5 times a second for about 4 seconds.  The screen will

> > go black but for only several (about 4) seconds. Then one will first

> > see the monitor power LED light up, the system loud speakers will burp

> > and the monitor screen will come back to life. If one kept the System

> > Monitor utility program on during this process then they will see the

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