Virtual Memory too low???

[Anubis]

im running Xp Pro and i just got a message that said myt virtual memory was too low and it was adjusting the size of my pageing file.

should i be worried about this?

its a 1.4GHz Tbird with 256 ram. im planning on upgradeing to 512 soon. but this is my 3rd PC so it might not happen for a lil bit

 

[dnuggett]

What size is the VM set at? It should be set at 2X RAM.

 

[Anubis]

alright i changed it it was set at 384-768 now its 512-1024

but is this anything serious or shoud i just not worry about it. ive never seen this before

 

[Twista]

press windows flag key and the pause key... at same time
than go to adavned tab
than perfermance tab (1st one)
than adavanced tab on the perfe. one
than look @ bottom

 

[WobbleWobble]

I'm guessing you have a memory leak in one of your programs. Do what Twista said and see what's eating up all your memory.

You have enough RAM to run general apps.

 

[Anubis]

im guessing DC++ is eateing most of it i have it running 24/7 on that comp. connected to my schools hub

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: dnuggett
What size is the VM set at? It should be set at 2X RAM.

I beleive you mean it should be set at "Let windows manage my virtual memory", unless you frequently run low.

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: dnuggett
What size is the VM set at? It should be set at 2X RAM.

I beleive you mean it should be set at "Let windows manage my virtual memory", unless you frequently run low.

No I mean it should be set at 2X RAM.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: dnuggett

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: dnuggett
What size is the VM set at? It should be set at 2X RAM.

I beleive you mean it should be set at "Let windows manage my virtual memory", unless you frequently run low.

No I mean it should be set at 2X RAM.

So that your system crashes if you hit the limit?

 

[dzt]

you should have more space on your drive, and let windows manage your virtual memory

click start | run
type cleanmgr and press enter
select drive C
clean all unused options, and press ok

 

[Anubis]

there are 8 gigs free on the windows drive that shouldent be the issue

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: dnuggett

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: dnuggett
What size is the VM set at? It should be set at 2X RAM.

I beleive you mean it should be set at "Let windows manage my virtual memory", unless you frequently run low.

No I mean it should be set at 2X RAM.

So that your system crashes if you hit the limit?

What on earth are you talking about?

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: dnuggett

Originally posted by: CTho9305


So that your system crashes if you hit the limit?

What on earth are you talking about?

This is what happens if you set your pagefile to min 2x max 2x and you hit the limit. After I took the screenshot, a few more apps crashed too (seti, mozilla) with "out of memory" errors. Note that I couldn't even do a "dir" in the command prompt. Maybe you meant min of 2x, and unlimited max.

 

[dnuggett]

How much memory did you have installed? Notice that 512 will be a total of 1.5 GB before this problem shows up. This is below the amount even most serious multitaskers would reach. I have never seen that error message before, but thanks for pointing it out. With 512 installed 99.99% of users should never see a problem with settings at 2X max.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: dnuggett
How much memory did you have installed? Notice that 512 will be a total of 1.5 GB before this problem shows up. This is below the amount even most serious multitaskers would reach. I have never seen that error message before, but thanks for pointing it out. With 512 installed 99.99% of users should never see a problem with settings at 2X max.

I set my page file to 50mb and wrote a C program that allocated 800mb (2 nested for loops + memory leak), because I didn't feel like actually figuring out how to use 1.5GB of memory, but my point is that if you don't either set the max absurdly high, or let windows manage it, there will be some point at which you'll have bigger trouble than the temporary thrashing that occurs when the pagefile has to be increased.

 

[dzt]

Originally posted by: Anubis
there are 8 gigs free on the windows drive that shouldent be the issue

8 gigs free ?
well, just choose that 8 gigs free drive and "let windows manage my virtual memory"