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Originally Posted by oneillpt
It is the Windows pagefile which was fragmented into over 60,000 fragments. A user managed pagefile of fixed size is persistent, and not cleared on reboot. Even if it were system managed, clearing on reboot was an option to be chosen, at least up to Windows 8.1. I avoid a system managed pagefile as these are prone to fragmentation. The fixed size user manage pagefile only fragments on BSOD, which was not a problem until this Kindle connection issue.
The Kindle is not being defragmented. The BSOD occurs immediately the USB connection is plugged in. I am reluctant to try fixes such as plunning in before boot or while sleeping. I reboot infrequently, and even one BSOD is more hassle than I need.
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Ah, that makes more sense. Alas, defragmenting a pagefile seems likely to have minimal effect to me: by its very nature swapin I/O is intensely seeky whether or not the pagefile is fragmented (because access to memory is highly random). It would be nice if it worked, but I suspect it won't. (Swapout I/O is not seeky and might be sped up by doing this, I suppose.)