Low Virtual Memory

KAAT_LADY

Hey there guys

I am back again to pick your brains,,,
my computer says it is low on virtual memory can someone explain this and tell me what to do about it please
loads of free space

Thanks in advance

KAAT xx

espresso

How much memory do you have and what operating system?

KAAT_LADY

I have windows XP...home version 2002 ,,service pack 3....amd athlon 64 processor 3200+
..with 2gb ram...............250gb hard drive

fwor

At what point does it report that it is low on virtual memory? I.e. what are you doing at the time, and does it coincide with a specific action on your part?

Can you confirm that you have plenty of free space on your hard disk?

TorrestheGreat

clear some of the crap off your hard drive- end of

Debt_Free_Chick

re-boot

usually works for me

TorrestheGreat

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

re-boot

usually works for me

Ridiculous advice, how on Earth would re-booting solve the problem? It takes 15 seconds to increase virtual memory on your computer- then the pop ups are gone forever.

esbo

Virtual memory is an area of your harddrive which can be used to store data which woud normally be in real memeory when you require more memory than you physically have. What happens is that data in memory which is not used much is swapped onto your harddrive and then swapped back into memory when it is required. It is swopped out in block called 'pages' and hence is often called a swop file or page file.
You can set a maximum size for this 'swop file' or you can let the computer manage the size of it for you, which is the default case I believe. In this case it would mean
your hard drive is almost full and deleting some stuff should help. If you have set a mamimum size you should increase it or let the computer manage the size.
There is not much point in setting a maximum size, you might as well let the computer manage it in which case it will normally use upto as much free space a you have on your drive, after all if your computer cannot run because it needs more virtual memory here is not much point having any free space on it, because your computer won't work anyway.

Click on Start - then right click on 'my computer' then select properties then advanced - performance - settings - advanced - virtual memory - change and you will see
your virtual memory settings. I recommend you ensure it is set to 'system managed size'.
You can also set which drive(s) it is on if you have nore than one, don't put it on your recovery partiton (drive) if you have one.
I expect the problem is simply that your hard drive is nearly full.

TorrestheGreat

esbo wrote: »

. I recommend you ensure it is set to 'system managed size'.
.

rubbish advice

KAAT_LADY

Thanks,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

shadowdragon

TorrestheGreat wrote: »

rubbish advice

And yours would be? (because it would be better offering advice than bashing someone else for theres)


Question:

How big is your Hard drive?

How much space is left on the Hard drive? (go into my computer and right click the c: drive and select properties and it will give you a pie chart of used/unused space on the drive)

If you have a number of partitions on your drive and save and install everything to the default drive (C: drive) it can fill up pretty quick while your E: F: drives (dependant on what you have) remain empty. And a full drive can be the cause of your problem.