Virtual Memory Problems.....Maybe a suggestion or two??? Please.

Published on September 5, 2004 By TN Brat! In Stardock Software

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give me an idea about what I need to do about my "Virtual Memory"
First I should say that I am forever mulit-tasking...big time....
This is the error I get....
"Windows Virtual Memory Too Low
Your system is low in virtual memory.
Windows is increasing the size of your
virtual memory paging file. During this
process, memory requests for some application
may be denied."
I get that at least once a day and I don't know what to do....

Here are the specs for my system...
HP Pavilion
Intel (R)
Celeron (R) CPU 2.70 GHZ
2.69 GHZ
248 MB RAM

And I'm running...
Windows XP
Home Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 1

It never locks up or anything when it says that....I've looked at the "Virtual Memory Paging File" but I don't know what I should do with it....

As for the multi-tasking that I do....I ALWAYS have PSP8 running...ALWAYS! But I don't think that the combination of other programs that I may be running wouldn't be any different from anyone elses around here....but that's why I'm asking here because I'm usually also running like Logon Studio or Skin Studio and of course I use WB, Cursor XP, Tablaunchpad...but I usually shut down the Beatnik and Rainlendar and Object Dock when I'm working....and have prety much stopped using Desktop X altogether...

Thanks!!
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Comments (Page 2)

Koasati

on Sep 17, 2004

I found this info today. The entire article can be found here http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php
Very informative reading.

Problems with Virtual Memory

It may sometimes happen that the system give ‘out of memory’ messages on trying to load a program, or give a message about Virtual memory space being low. Possible causes of this are:
The setting for Maximum Size of the page file is too low, or there is not enough disk space free to expand it to that size.

The page file has become corrupt, possibly at a bad shutdown. In the Virtual Memory settings, set to “No page file,” then exit System Properties, shut down the machine, and reboot. Delete PAGEFILE.SYS (on each drive, if more than just C:), set the page file up again and reboot to bring it into use.

The page file has been put on a different drive without leaving a minimal amount on C:.

There is trouble with third party software. In particular, if the message happens at shutdown, suspect a problem with Symantec’s Norton Live update, for which there is a fix posted here. It is also reported that spurious messages can arise if NAV 2004 is installed. If the problem happens at boot and the machine has an Intel chipset, the message may be caused by an early version (before version 2.1) of Intel’s “Application Accelerator.” Uninstall this and then get an up-to-date version from Intel’s site.

Possibly there is trouble with the drivers for IDE hard disks in Device Manager, remove the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers (main controller) and reboot for Plug and Play to start over.

With an NTFS file system, the permissions for the page file’s drive’s root directory must give “Full Control” to SYSTEM. If not, there is likely to be a message at boot that the system is “unable to create a page file.”

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