Well ... that does sound suspicious, I admit. With a Gig of system RAM,
I wouldn't expect to see all the pagefile used unless you're running
some highly RAM intensive programs. It sounds like it's that way all the
time though, right?
You didn't indicate you set the pagefile off, restarted and then turned
it back on and set it to system managed size. I'd almost bet you money
that changes the numbers and will unlock whatever is holding it so it
appears full. I've seen that happen before. I used to also delete the
pagefile file itself while it was turned off, but it turned out that
wasn't necessary.
With the settings you currently have, you will never see a pagefile size
of less than 1.509 Gig because that's always the size it will be. You
might see more however, because windows XP will tell you it's going to
do it, and then upsize the amount available to the pagefile. In fact,
you can turn the pagefile off and windows will still create a pagefile
as it needs it and giving you the appropriate error messages.
Since you haven't said anything about it getting bigger, I'm betting
it's actually little used and simply not being reported correctly right
now.
Be cautious about reading % left, available, etc.; sometimes they are
phrased strangely and don't mean what a quick glance might tell you.
Besides trying the restarts I mentioned, you might also download a 3rd
party pagefile monitor. Sysinternals, now part of MS, used to have one
I liked.
Another possibility that comes to mind is a RAM problem - are you sure
the full Gig of RAM is available to the system? An improperly seated
RAM stick or just bad RAM could be at work too.
IMO, without having run the Restarts and having those results and
perhaps the results of a pagefil monitor, and some assurance that RAM is
OK, I don't think I have much else to offer for lack of a control point.
Perhaps someone else might, though.
How many physical drives and logical drives are there on each physical
drive?
Does it matter what program/s are running?
Does it happen with no ram intensive apps running? In other words is it
like that all the time?
Interesting if nothign else right now.
HTH,
Twayne