winpe-windows-virutal memory minimum too

[Diana Reichwein]

Hi,
everytime when i start a win32 application by using winpe for the
first time, the message "windows-virutal memory minimum too low: your
system is low on virutal memory. windows is increasing the size of
your virutal memory paging file..." is shown. How can I prevent or
surpress this message???
Thanks in advance
Di

 

[George Ellis]

What are you starting PE from, a CD? The answer here may be to add more
memory to that system. You do not want PE creating a swapfile on any old
drive if finds, so it should be restricted to real memory. I have not
tested PE on a HD to see if it will use a pagefile if it has writable media
(not that it should).

 

[Diana Reichwein]

Yep, I start PE from a CD, how can I add more memory to that system?
I couldn't find sth. to stop PE from creating a swap file. Do you know
some good documentation about it?
Thank you
Diana

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

What version av Windows PE are you using?

Which media (Windows XP SP1 or Windows Server 2003) have you used to
build the image?

regards
Johan Arwidmark

Windows User Group - Nordic
http://wug.lutteman.se

 

[Diana Reichwein]

where can I see the version number?

using windows xp prof sp1 to build my image

Diana

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

Windows PE 1.2 files has 2003-03-25 as timestamp

How much memory do you have on the computer? You should have at least
64 MB (preferably more..)

Windows PE does not (normally) use a pagefile on disk. Which tool did
you use to create the PE Image?

When the virtual memory error appears, what application are you
starting?

/ jaw

 

[Diana Reichwein]

I'm using an older verison of windows pe.

my computer has 1GB memory....

i created it only by configuring the .inf files and used mkimg to
build the iso file

 

[George Ellis]

Based on all of the information in this thread, you need a new application.
If you have 1GB of memory, that should be more than enough. If the
application is using more than 1GB, I would say that is above and beyond
what PE was designed for. If you aren't trying to do that much with it,
then the error message you are getting is false. Is the application or the
system posting the message (the title bar on the popup will be a big hint)?
Just because you get an error message, it does always mean what it says.
The application may be trying to create a temp file and fails because it
cannot write to the "system drive". Lots of strange things could be
happening. And remember that you do not have all of the APIs available
either, so error handling could be giving you false results.

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

The only time I have seen this error was when using a older version of
Bart Lagerweij's PE Builder...

Try to build the Image using Windows PE 1.2 and/or using Windows
Server 2003 as media and see if the error still exists...

You could also try to build the image using the default WinPE*.inf
files (eg. not modified)

You also download and test Bart's latest version (3.0.22) and see if
that image works...

regards
Johan Arwidmark

Windows User Group - Nordic
http://wug.lutteman.se

 

[Diana Reichwein]

the title bar says: "windows - virutal memory minimum too low"
and the message is thrown after the start of the application.

thanks diana

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

Do you get this error for every application? even notepad?

This seems to be an issue when a program tries to call up too much RAM
(Windows PE's dynamic data comes from RAM).

Ultimate Zip is known for this error

regards
Johan Arwidmark

Windows User Group - Nordic
http://www.wug-nordic.net

 

[Diana Reichwein]

No, notepad and some other programs are working alright.

I'am going to try it with the zip program, then i'll see if it is the
same thing...

thanks
Diana

 

[Diana Reichwein]

Yep, same error with the ultimate zip programm...
do you know a solution for this problem?
thank you
Diana

 

[George Ellis]

I found this and it may help. Check the PE docs for Winbom.ini. In the
WinPE section of the winbom, you can increase the size of the vm with
PageFileSize= key. Default is 64MB. Count is in MB. So to double should
be:

[WinPE]
PageFileSize=128
Restart=No