So before I start here’re the specs from my System Page, and tl;dr is at the bottom:
| Item | Spec |
|---|---|
| Framework | 16 |
| Dock | Anker 568 USB-C (as the forum says, 100W charging doesn’t work as advertised) |
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics 3.80 GHz |
| Installed RAM | 64.0 GB (61.8 GB usable) |
| System type | 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor |
| Edition | Windows 11 Pro |
| Version | 23H2 |
| Installed on | 10/3/2022 |
| OS build | 22631.3810 |
| Experience | Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22700.1020.0 |
I recently posted about sleep issues and some frustrations I had with it and battery life. I ended up keeping the powerbutton set to hibernate and closing the lid to sleep (Connected sleep is all I can do unfortunately).
I decided to keep going forward with a new dock, I had a simple usb-c… adapter I used as a dock, but wanted to move up. Thus, I saw this Anker dock on a megathread here that seemed pretty solid for my needs and wants (from what I understood).
Issue is, after I got it my FW16 started running out of space over night. I was at about 1.5GB used out of 1.81 (2GB nvme). I kept deleting things to get through to the system. First time I thought it was something random, but it happened regularly since then. Tried a few apps and compared Wiztree and TreeSize’s charts to see mostly it was my Pagefile expanding and expanding.
I looked it up and some older posts suggest pagefile size is generally in the 1.5x size compared to RAM, so it bloweing up from what seemed to used to be 18GB to 54GB I guess was within reason by that logic, but considering it didn’t happen before I’m not sure.
I then noticed the laptop never fully went to sleep when connected to the dock! I’d randomly hear the fans spin like jets and everytime I went to move it from the dock it was blazing hot.
tl;dr–
So I just had the thought, is it having trouble sleeping while docked and therefore putting crap repeatedly over and over to the pagefile.sys as it keeps cycling through trying to sleep? How can I test this other than noting this seems to only happen when I plug it into the dock? How can I stop this most importantly? Any help or ideas are welcome!