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Virtual Memory Too Low
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, Jul 08 2005 11:06 AM
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Posted 08 July 2005 - 11:06 AM
"I am not sure what these four 9's mean.. but I think this Ace is kinda high"
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Posted 17 July 2005 - 01:40 PM
Er isn't that two and a half? 
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Posted 17 July 2005 - 01:50 PM
lol.. would you believe... a typo?
yes my bad..lol.
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Posted 17 July 2005 - 01:59 PM
It's easily done...
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Posted 12 August 2005 - 11:48 AM
Actually if you have a large anount of ram..say over 512 the 1 1/2 setting is a better choice 
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Posted 20 August 2005 - 09:26 AM
I am getting this message all the time:
"Virtual Memory Too Low - Windows is increasing your virtual memory. Some apps won't respond while this is happening" (or something like that!)
It happens even when I only have a few windows open in Crazy Browser, and it's very annoying.
So, how do I do what you have suggested above? Where is the paging file control?
Mandy - who only knows how to turn the thing on - and run HighJackThis!
running Windows XP Pro
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Posted 24 August 2005 - 06:06 AM
Manually setting your page file is quite easy Mandy. Here are the steps.
1st go to Start then click My Computer. Then select View System Information under the system tasks menu. This will bring up your System Properties window.
In this window select the Advanced tab. The area you want is Performance. Hit settings and select the advanced tab once again <note you will have to be logged in with administrator rights to make any changes here> Look down and you will see the box Virtual Memory, hit the change button. Once here check the Custom size button and enter the value <in megabytes> in the initial size box & the maximum size box <both values the same> Then click the set button and okay buttons and your done Windows will ask you to reboot for the settings to take affect. You would determine the size of your page file using the above guidelines. say you have 512mb of ram. You would set min size 1280 and max size 1280. For 768mb of ram 2 1/2 times <1920mb> or 1 1/2 times <1152mb> should work. I use the 1152 setting myself. You might want to try both. IMHO anything 1gig or over of ram 1 1/2 times the amount is plenty. Very few users need a 2 1/2 gig size page file. I hope this helped you out. 
Windows will ask you to reboot for the settings to take affect. You would determine the size of your page file using the above guidelines. say you have 512mb of ram. You would set min size 1280 and max size 1280. For 768mb of ram 2 1/2 times <1920mb> or 1 1/2 times <1152mb> should work. I use the 1152 setting myself. You might want to try both. IMHO anything 1gig or over of ram 1 1/2 times the amount is plenty. Very few users need a 2 1/2 gig size page file. I hope this helped you out.
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Posted 01 March 2008 - 01:34 AM
weird i checked that and mine says 3070 and maximum 8000 but it also says the recommended amount is 3070 my ram is 2gb is that amount correct?
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Posted 02 March 2008 - 10:50 AM
Hi, That is a very old thread you are responding to......note the dates....
You could always let windows manage it for you rather than setting max/mins
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Posted 14 March 2008 - 08:56 AM
Hello,
With 2 GB of RAM that would be a min. of 3GB, and a max. of 6GB.
(Take in to concederation that one GB is 1024 MB)
Your page file (some times called swap file) should be a min. of 1.5 times your RAM, and a max. of 3 times your RAM.weird i checked that and mine says 3070 and maximum 8000 but it also says the recommended amount is 3070 my ram is 2gb is that amount correct?
With 2 GB of RAM that would be a min. of 3GB, and a max. of 6GB.
(Take in to concederation that one GB is 1024 MB)
Edited by HFCG, 14 March 2008 - 08:57 AM.
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Computer CPUs are designed so that the address of any piece of data in virtual memory is tracked by a single integer register. So the total amount of data the computer can keep in its working field depends on the width of these registers. A 32 bit register size enables 232 addresses (4 GB) to be referenced. Switching to a 64 bit register increases the available address space to (approximately) 16 TB. This is why 32 bit operating systems can only use up to 4 GB of RAM, and 64 bit operating systems can use much more. (I have a 32 bit system)
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