Increasing Paging File????

Jay-Jay_4

I keep getting the pop up saying something like 'not enough memory, windows is increasing it's paging file, in the meantime some stuff may not work'....


So.... I Googled it and found out the way to increase the paging file (I have no clue what this actually is!). It said to just increase it.... but mine says that it's already too big (it recommends 285MB but mine's already 434MB)




Now I haven't got a clue about any of this so I would be very grateful if someone could tell me what I need to do in very simple baby language.




Mr Skint...I DID Google...I DID try to find out but Google doesn't help when you're a thicko like me

Mr_Skint_2

http://www.theeldergeek.com/paging_file.htm

Hi Jay_Jay

Jay-Jay_4

Mr_Skint wrote:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/paging_file.htm

Hi Jay_Jay

:eek:

Anyone selling an IT dictionary and harvested human brain cells?


Thanks Mr Skint...I'll try to digest that info



(was hoping that I could just press a button )

frak

Your page file should be approximately 2.5 times your physical memory
eg, 512mb 1.25gb page file. Its normally best to let windows manage it but you could try settign the minimum and maximum to being 2.5 times ram and you have a swap brick


dan

blinky

1.5x RAM is normally suggested but there's no harm in having it larger.

frak

blinky is right,
sorry it s 1.5 times under normal circumstances just so happened i'd configured a server with a specific memory hungry app and had it in my mind

webhamster

A common reason for that is underpowered pc , ie ram , or an error like memmory leak frmo a driver , dll or exe.

Look on google for testing for memmory leaks to be sure.