I did change the settings as you suggested but things dont seem to
change. I also reconfigured the start up files but I dont seem to be
getting anywhere. I set the minimum virtual memory to 10MB and the upper
to 80 MB. The PC has 64MB of RAM and 600MB free hard disk space runjning
win98. I have reformatted the disk before in a desperate bid to redeem
the PC.

Chilangisha Changwe



On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:37:35 -0800, "David Gillett"
<[log in to unmask]> said:
>   I definitely recommend setting the swap file (disk space used for
>   virtual 
> memory) to a fixed size, rather than letting windows grow and shrink and 
> grow and shrink and fragment and reallocate it, and generally make it a
> slow 
> sticky mess.
> 
> On 28 Jan 2006 at 0:53, Don Penlington wrote:
> 
> > The usual rule of thumb is to set virtual memory at twice RAM as a starting 
> > point.
> 
>   Various rules of thumb for this have been handed around.  The amount of 
> virtual memory needed depends on the task load, and not directly on the 
> amount of physical RAM installed.  Any rule of thumb which is based on
> the 
> physical RAM is *assuming* that you already have adequate physical RAM
> for 
> the mix of applications you want to tun.
>  
> > It's one of those error messages that doesn't really mean what it 
> > says.  Although you may have plenty of RAM, some programs seem to want to 
> > write to virtual memory regardless. If this is limited or constrained by 
> > Windows management or lack of disk space, you could get that error message.
> 
>   Part of allocating memory to a process is allocating swap space to 
> virtualize that memory.  So if a program asks the OS for memory, and
> there 
> isn't swap space available, the program's request is denied, and this is 
> generally reported as "insufficient memory" without any knowledge of
> *why* 
> the request failed -- the code issuing the error message simply doesn't
> know 
> such details.
> 
> David Gillett
> 
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