Optimal size of virtual memory?

[Craig]

Today, I tried to burn a 4.5GB data onto a DVD disk with Nero 6.6.
The burning was unsuccessful. This was the first time ever I had
experienced the failure of burning DVD.
The error message was:

Not enough quota is available.... blah blah.

I assume that this error has to do with virtual memory. When I checked
my computer,
the virtual memory size was 1,536 MB. What is the optimal size of memory
size?
OS is WinXP Pro SP2. Thanks. Craig

 

[Guest]

I think you should check your Disk Quota settings for your system partition.
Maybe these settings are being modified by someone. So, you are limited to
use the free disk space, which could be the one reason of your dvd burn fail.

Open My Computer - click Tools - Folder Option - click View tab - under
Advanced settings options - uncheck "Use simple file sharig (Rcommended).

Right-click your each NTFS partition you have on your PC (usually your
system partition where Windows XP is installed) and choose Properties. Click
on Quota tab and uncheck "Enable quota management" or modify the entires as
per your requirement.

Hope this information helps you, let us know.

 

[Craig]

Thank you RajKohli,

If everything fails, I will follow your instruction. I spent the whole
morning to figure out DVD burning with Nero.
This is what I found this morning:

a) I burned two folders (3.044 GB and 0.5 GB = total 3.55 GB) using the
same batch of DVD disk (Maxwell). No problem with burning at all.
b) Burning 7 folders ( 4,006 GB) caused the same quota problem.

I repeated twice with the same folders. I got the same results. The
7-folders are collection of ClipArts. I am wondering whether Clip Arts
are causing the burning problem or not.

Craig

 

[Guest]

I was doing some "Google" on the error message and found that increase the
virtual memory size could be one solution. The size of virtual memory depends
on your PC's Physical Memory. E.g. if you 256MB RAM then 256x1.5 = 384MB
should be the minimum size of your Virtual Memory.

Read the following article for more information:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/paging_file.htm

Hope this one helps you, let us know!

 

[Mak]

RajKohli,
I'm not disputing your advice to increase paging file size for OP to correct
the problem with what sounds like a lack of space for Nero cache, only the
math you use...

I'd say the size of your paging file *should* depend on your workload and
not on the amount of RAM installed, in other words:
the more RAM your system has *at the same level of load*, the less paging
file you'll need.
Also, the article at eldergeek you've linked is severely wrong...
I'd suggest reading this: http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/virtualmemory.htm
instead.

 

[Guest]

Whats wrong with you? I am just advising him that how he can change his
Virtual Memory Size to make a try to solve his problem. Even in other
workgroups they were advising the same. I was talking about the Minimum Page
File Size. It should be x1.5 times of your Physical RAM.

This is what Microsoft has to say about Virtual memory. Please read carefully.

"For best performance, set the initial size to not less than the recommended
size under Total paging file size for all drives. The recommended size is
equivalent to 1.5 times the amount of RAM on your system"

"What you say is, what you learn?"

 

[Mak]

in-line replies:

Whats wrong with you? I am just advising him that how he can change his
Virtual Memory Size to make a try to solve his problem. Even in other
workgroups they were advising the same. I was talking about the Minimum
Page
File Size. It should be x1.5 times of your Physical RAM.

no, it should be big enough for your workload.

That's all, there is no *magic* number. If it is bigger than that - there is
no penalty in performance, but you might be wasting space on your disk.
x1.5 is indeed Microsoft's default recommendation for RAM sizes below 2GiB
(from 2GiB up, the system defaults to x1 BTW), but that's just that, a
recommendation, they have to start somewhere.

This is what Microsoft has to say about Virtual memory. Please read
carefully.

paging file != virtual memory for a start (in other words - working with no
paging file does not put your OS into "real mode") and ... take your own
advise and try to read the article in the link I've posted earlier...
carefully.