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From: John on 27 Feb 2010 19:45 I'm running XP SP3. My hard drive is about 60% full. What does it mean when Windows reports that Virtual Memory is low, and what can I do about it? -- John
From: Leonard Grey on 27 Feb 2010 21:18 It means that you do not have enough memory for the applications you are running. If you are seeing this message often, the typical cause is malware infection. Here are other possible solutions: 1- Reduce the number of memory-intensive programs running in the background. 2- If you have been fiddling with the configuration settings for virtual memory, reset them to "system managed size." 3- Install more RAM. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est John wrote: > I'm running XP SP3. My hard drive is about 60% full. What does it mean when > Windows reports that Virtual Memory is low, and what can I do about it?
From: Ian D on 27 Feb 2010 22:00 "John" <jREMOVEcmcf(a)rocketmail.com> wrote in message news:DE36B9C7-F82C-441D-9890-36CBD1BDC373(a)microsoft.com... > I'm running XP SP3. My hard drive is about 60% full. What does it mean > when > Windows reports that Virtual Memory is low, and what can I do about it? > -- > John It usually means your pagefile is getting full, or has become corrupted. The best approach is to delete the pagefile, then create a system managed one. Go to Control panel > System > Advanced > Performance > Advanced > Virtual memory > Change. For your boot drive, select "No paging file" then set, and reboot. Then, repeat the process and select "System managed size" and reboot. The system recommended size will be 2.5 times your RAM size. If you have 4GB of memory, you can safely manually set the min and max paging file sizes at 2048MB and 4096MB. If you only have 1 or 2GB, let the system manage it. If there's insufficient space on your hard drive for the above, you best bet is to either reduce the amount of programs and data, or get a larger drive.
From: SC Tom on 28 Feb 2010 09:11 "Ian D" <taurus(a)nowhereatall.com> wrote in message news:eo6vlICuKHA.3408(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > "John" <jREMOVEcmcf(a)rocketmail.com> wrote in message > news:DE36B9C7-F82C-441D-9890-36CBD1BDC373(a)microsoft.com... >> I'm running XP SP3. My hard drive is about 60% full. What does it mean >> when >> Windows reports that Virtual Memory is low, and what can I do about it? >> -- >> John > > It usually means your pagefile is getting full, or has > become corrupted. The best approach is to delete > the pagefile, then create a system managed one. > > Go to Control panel > System > Advanced > Performance >> Advanced > Virtual memory > Change. For your boot > drive, select "No paging file" then set, and reboot. Then, > repeat the process and select "System managed size" and > reboot. The system recommended size will be 2.5 times > your RAM size. > > If you have 4GB of memory, you can safely manually set > the min and max paging file sizes at 2048MB and 4096MB. > If you only have 1 or 2GB, let the system manage it. > > If there's insufficient space on your hard drive for the above, > you best bet is to either reduce the amount of programs and > data, or get a larger drive. > I've never seen a "system recommended size" at 2.5X RAM size. Sounds a bit high to me. For example, I have 4GB installed with 3.25GB recognized. My system recommended size is 4989MB, and my currently allocated size 3326MB, which coincidentally(?) is almost the same as my recognized installed RAM (3.25x1024=3328). Back in the Win95 through ME days, the popular manual setting was 2 times installed RAM plus 10. Have no idea what the 10 was for- guess it just looked good. Since the advent of Win2k and subsequent OS's, I have seen no advantage at using anything other than System Managed. We experimented at work for a while on some high-end HP workstations running I-deas CAD/CAM and found no difference whatsoever in speed, stability, save time, access time, etc. by using manual or system managed settings. And believe me, these were engineers that would call up to complain that it took 11 seconds to open a web page instead of the usual 9.5, and when was I going to fix it? So I'm sure I would have heard of anything that affected their work habits. This was first on Windows 2000 and then on WinXP Pro. We never did graduate to Vista. I think with the faster CPU's, RAM, and HDD's, system managed is the way to go. Just "set it and forget it." If you add or subtract RAM, great. The system still knows what to do and adjusts accordingly. -- SC Tom
From: Daave on 6 Mar 2010 09:34 Ian D wrote: > "John" <jREMOVEcmcf(a)rocketmail.com> wrote in message > news:DE36B9C7-F82C-441D-9890-36CBD1BDC373(a)microsoft.com... >> I'm running XP SP3. My hard drive is about 60% full. What does it >> mean when >> Windows reports that Virtual Memory is low, and what can I do about >> it? -- >> John > > It usually means your pagefile is getting full, or has > become corrupted. The best approach is to delete > the pagefile, then create a system managed one. > > Go to Control panel > System > Advanced > Performance >> Advanced > Virtual memory > Change. For your boot > drive, select "No paging file" then set, and reboot. Then, > repeat the process and select "System managed size" and > reboot. The system recommended size will be 2.5 times > your RAM size. I believe you mean 1.5 times the recognized physical memory.
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