who do i fix this??

hey someone out there i'm new at this and haf confused about how this works. i'm trying to find out why my pc and my server on my network occasionally say "windows virtual memory is low". how do i fix this?? i'm not running more than 2 or 3 programs. i'm running windows xp if that makes any difference. any help is appreciated

thanks rick

 

Re: how do i fix this??

i mean how do i fix this!!

 

Hi Rick and Welcome to MajorGeeks. Try increasing your virtual memory size.
Bump up the virtual memory size on your PC
The first solution is to increase your PC’s virtual memory settings. To do so, you first need to determine how much RAM you currently have.
•To find the amount of RAM on your PC:
1.On the Start menu, click My Computer. The My Computer window is displayed. Click View system information. The Systems Properties dialog box is displayed.
2.Click the General tab. Just above Support Information you will see the amount of Ram on your PC.
•To increase the virtual memory on your computer:
1.On the Start menu, click My Computer. Click View system information. The Systems Properties dialog box is displayed.
2.In the Systems Properties dialog box click the Advanced tab. Under Performance, click Settings. The Performance Options dialog box is displayed.
3.In the Performance Options dialog box, click the Advanced tab. Find the Virtual memory area. Click Change. The Virtual Memory dialog box is displayed.
4.In the Virtual Memory dialog box, change the Initial Size and Maximum size to 1.5 times the RAM you have (in MB). For example, if you had 768 MB, you would enter 1152 MB RAM in both the Initial Size and Maximum Size text boxes.

 

You could also add RAM to your pc and server. Most manufacturers will list the specifications required and the maximum amount of RAM that a particular system can handle. This will eliminate the need to increase Virtual Memory, and will speed up system response time as RAM works much faster than Virtual Memory. The downside is the cost. Some geeks run their pc without any Virtual Memory at all because their RAM can handle the load, eliminating the need to use the slower HDD for the increased memory requirements. Our desktop PC's use a master HDD for the operating system and a slave HDD for the virtual memory, if the RAM is less than 512 MB, so while the operating system uses one head to read and write to the C: drive, virtual memory can be read and written to using the the head on the D: drive (two heads are better than one). I havent tried using the cable select option yet.

 

For it to be running low on virtual memory, either you don't have very much ram, or something is hogging memory horribly horribly bad on your machines. Cause virtual memory from what I always understood was when you had like 512mb of ram and your computer was using 630mb of memory, that's when virtual memory compensated for the extra memory needed. Might want to check your task manager under processes and see what's hogging up all the memory.