Virtual memory

[Richard]

I posted a question on 1 Jan regarding the paging file on
my computer being too small. Unfortunately I have only
had one reply and that suggested something I had already
tried.
I have just upgraded from XP Home to XP Pro and I get a
message at startup that my paging file is too small. When
you go to Contol Panel, System, Advanced, Performance,
Settings, advanced. You get a message that says that due
to the problem at startup Windows has made an adjustment
(or something like that), Under Virtual memory it shows
that the total paging files on all drives is 0. When you
click change it shows under custom size that there is 768
and 1536, this is reflected in the box at the top of the
window but at the bottom it says currently allocated is
0. I have clicked Set and then OK and it still says that
Virtual Memory on all drives is 0. I have rebooted and
the result is the same. Please help.
Thanks in advance

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Richard

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

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[Cason]

-----Original Message-----
I posted a question on 1 Jan regarding the paging file on
my computer being too small. Unfortunately I have only
had one reply and that suggested something I had already
tried.
I have just upgraded from XP Home to XP Pro and I get a
message at startup that my paging file is too small. When
you go to Contol Panel, System, Advanced, Performance,
Settings, advanced. You get a message that says that due
to the problem at startup Windows has made an adjustment
(or something like that), Under Virtual memory it shows
that the total paging files on all drives is 0. When you
click change it shows under custom size that there is 768
and 1536, this is reflected in the box at the top of the
window but at the bottom it says currently allocated is
0. I have clicked Set and then OK and it still says that
Virtual Memory on all drives is 0. I have rebooted and
the result is the same. Please help.
Thanks in advance
.

For best performance, set the initial size to not less

than the recommended size under total paging file size
for all drives. Recommended size will be equivalent to
1.5 times the amount of ram on your system. (Ensure that
custom tab is tick, and type the minimum on the initial
size box and maximum size for the other box too. Follow
by ok. And if you doesn't want this to occurs to you, my
recommendation is to add another stick of ram. For xp, it
would be advisable to use at least 256mb of ram.

 

[Alex Nichol]

than the recommended size under total paging file size
for all drives. Recommended size will be equivalent to
1.5 times the amount of ram on your system.

It is not.

I don't know what is preventing the OP setting the page file size
(unless just possibly he is trying to have it all on some other drive,
with none on C. But that 'multiple of RAM is plain nonsense - that says
a 1GB machine, which probably needs no active file at all, needs a 1.5
GB one sitting around, while, much more seriously a 128MB one gets 192
MB, which would be totally inadequate.

See www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm