Virtual Memory

[Guest]

Greetings,

Everytime windows downloads updates .. i receive the message:

"Virtual Memory Too Low"


Configuration is:
P3
20 GB HDD
256 MB RAM
Windows XP


thanks in advance..

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please have a look at the following article:

"Virtual Memory in Windows XP"
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

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[Jonny]

And the virtual memory settins in XP are?

 

[Plato]

Everytime windows downloads updates .. i receive the message:
"Virtual Memory Too Low"

Configuration is:
P3
20 GB HDD
256 MB RAM
Windows XP

Your hard drive is too small for XP. You dont have enough space for a
proper page file.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Your hard drive is too small for XP. You dont have enough space for a
proper page file.

That's too strong a statement. Whether his drive is too small depends
entirely on how he uses his computer and what he has installed on the drive.
Although many people--perhaps even most--need more than 20GB, I've seem
people with light needs run XP very successfullly with half that hard drive
space--10GB.

 

[doodle]

Greetings,

Everytime windows downloads updates .. i receive the message:

"Virtual Memory Too Low"


Configuration is:
P3
20 GB HDD
256 MB RAM
Windows XP


thanks in advance..

you could increase the size of the page file depending on how much Hard
Disk space you have. If you need to run a disk cleanup and the run
chkdsk and defrag the drive to free up room. You might also consider
adding more RAM.

 

[Plato]

That's too strong a statement. Whether his drive is too small depends
entirely on how he uses his computer and what he has installed on the drive.
Although many people--perhaps even most--need more than 20GB, I've seem
people with light needs run XP very successfullly with half that hard drive
space--10GB.

So you're saying that the error message: "Virtual Memory Too Low" is
just a random, incorrect message?

 

[Bill Sharpe]

So you're saying that the error message: "Virtual Memory Too Low" is
just a random, incorrect message?

Not necessarily. It depends primarily on how big the page file is. Also,
how many programs he's running at one time.

Bill

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

So you're saying that the error message: "Virtual Memory Too Low" is
just a random, incorrect message?

No, of course not. But it's not as simple as just having a hard drive bigger
than 20GB. I've seen that message occur on a machine with 2GB of RAM and
500GB of HD.