Low Virtual Memory messages

[Mr Shed]

I've recently been bugged by a lot of low virtual memory messages, which is
puzzling me somewhat.

I've got a PIII 500 with 256mb ram, and two sizeable hard drives, each of
which has 256mb of virtual memory allocated. I wouldn't have thought that
512mb of virtual memory could be insufficient, on top of 256mb ram. The low
virtual memory messages also appear when I've done very little on a
particular boot - it's not as if I've been running a load of huge
applications on that boot. And aside from Norton AV and Firewall, a minimum
of stuff is running in background.

I'm bemused - any advice would be welcome!

Mr S

 

[Ken Blake]

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Interesting! I've been getting similar messages, and I've
got a machine with two mirrored 80 Gb drives and 512 Mb of
RAM memory. Yes, I was running Photoshop and Paint Shop
Pro at the time, but I would have thought the 512 Mb of RAM
memory would have accommodated those applications. I
realize that I'm a neophyte, so perhaps I'm missing
something obvious?

Graphics programs are very big users of memory. 512MB may seem
like a lot of RAM, but that's necessarily so when something like
Photoshop is running.

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Ken Blake
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[Ken Blake]

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Graphics programs are very big users of memory. 512MB may seem
like a lot of RAM, but that's necessarily so when something like
Photoshop is running.

Ugh! A terrible typo. What I meant was "but that's *not*
necessarily so."

 

[Alex Nichol]

I've recently been bugged by a lot of low virtual memory messages, whichis
puzzling me somewhat.

I've got a PIII 500 with 256mb ram, and two sizeable hard drives, each of
which has 256mb of virtual memory allocated. I wouldn't have thought that
512mb of virtual memory could be insufficient, on top of 256mb ram.

I would ensure that the 'maximum' for the page file was set higher. At
256 of RAM, an actual 512 of page file should be plenty, but some
programs ask for enormous allocations of virtual memory space - which
they probably never take up, but the system has to have the space
available should it be needed . See www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm
and the Problems section, to see if any of the other points might apply
- especially the one about Intel Application Accelerator