Virtual Memory Low

[Krishna Narayanan]

I recently formatted my HDD and re-installed my copy of Win XP Prof Edition
EN on my P4 2 Ghz with 256 MB DDR.

After about 10 mins of logging in, my system becomes very slow and all
applications kinda become slow and stuck. Then I see this message saying
"Virtual Memory Low". I tried to reset the page file limit almost 80% more
than the recommended but still no change. I have also set my page file to be
erased on shut down.

I have never had this trouble earlier, but now its recurring and I don't
know what to do about it.

I really appreciate if someone could help.

 

[Jose Francisco]

Greetings,

You seem to be consuming more than 256MB of RAM. If I were save a little
cash and upgrade it to 512MB DDR.

Thanks and best of luck!

 

[Eric]

I would try using the setting that allows Windows to
manage the Virtual Memory swap file.

Eric,
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[Rock]

See this excellent link for info on virtual memory in XP and how to set
it up:

[Courtesy Alex Nichol]
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

 

[Alex Nichol]

I recently formatted my HDD and re-installed my copy of Win XP Prof Edition
EN on my P4 2 Ghz with 256 MB DDR.

After about 10 mins of logging in, my system becomes very slow and all
applications kinda become slow and stuck. Then I see this message saying
"Virtual Memory Low". I tried to reset the page file limit almost 80% more
than the recommended but still no change. I have also set my page file to be
erased on shut down.

I have never had this trouble earlier, but now its recurring and I don't
know what to do about it.

See my page www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm and the Problems section.
This is likely to be one of the programs that is getting run at
startup, quite possibly some malware; maybe a program that purports to
manage or free up memory; maybe a regular resident like Symantec Live
Update or NAV 2004