Virtual Memory Too Low

[AppleDave Veteran]

This just suddenly popped up when I was surfing the web. HELP ME WTF IS IT HOW DO I FIX IT!

[inf|nity]

Generally, windows loads programs and data that you are using in the foreground to physical memory and unloads them to a pagefile (which is on your hard drive) when it is in the backgroud.

If you have too many apps running or apps that are working with a lot of data, the memory and pagefile can get full. You can try increasing the size of the pagefile by going to the task manager -> performance -> advanced -> settings -> change.

Also, try to figure out if you have any spyware/adware that might be sucking up memory.

If you are running a lot of apps at the same time, you might simply need more RAM.

[John Veteran]

It's just a warning, it's not an error :huh: It even says that Windows is compensating for it... If you want to do something, set your page file to system-managed size (Y)

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[Roger H. Veteran]

just change it to auto or increase the size of your pagefile or quit running that many programs at once if your system only has 256MB of ram (which XP uses most of anyways)

[Slimy]

easy

hold windows key and pause break

advanced

performance settings

advanced

virtual memory change

and select a drive, choose around 700 for min AND max and click set

[Slimy]

wow u guys beat me to it

[Brandon]

hmmm ive nere had this proble because i alwas set my virtual memory to 700-700MB

[AppleDave Veteran]

wait i am confused how do I fix this?

[insanekiwi]

2303mb here :yes:

[Post-It Note]

You don't really need to fix anything since windows will automatically fix it for you. If you want to do it yourself, follow what slimy told you.

[AppleDave Veteran]

Alright I think I fixed it. I have 512MB of RAM with 37.7 GB of HD free.

My Virtual Memory is set at min1024-max1024

is that good?

[insanekiwi]

yep, 1024 is quite fine. i don't think you'll encounter any problems anymore now :yes:

[Brandon]

^^ said he had 916MB before, so seemed natural to go to 1gb

[AppleDave Veteran]

  musicmaster said:

^^ said he had 916MB before, so seemed natural to go to 1gb

yeah thanks musicmaster!

GO CUBS! :laugh:

[Kerm]

I have 1Gb RAM, and was playing UT2004 a few weeks ago and i got this, it automatically set my pae-file size to 1230mb, not had a problem since, is this ok though guys?

*Edit* i have plenty of HD space, so its not an issue.