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"
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> 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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