It is important to keep in mind that there is a point at which increasing 
the virtual memory is of no help, even putting performance aside. The OS 
needs to keep some minimum amount of a program in physical RAM regardless. 
At some point, with only 64M of RAM, even if you have say 512M of virtual 
memory, the system will be "out of memory".

At 10:27 AM 2/2/2006, you wrote:
>   The way to set it to a "fixed size" is to make the minimum and maximum the
>same!  With 64 MBG of RAM, setting virtual memory at "twice RAM", as Don
>recommends would be 128 MB, not 10 or 80.
>
>   However, a rule like "twice RAM" is based on the assumption that your
>amount of installed RAM is already adequate.  64MB may be on the low side.
>If you allow 192 MB or even 256 MB for swap, you may get rid of the error
>message but still be unhappy with the system's performance -- it may spend
>so much time swapping stuff between virtual memory and RAM that actual
>execution is noticably impacted.
>
>   Are there things you can "clean up" on the drive?  I've seen some well-
>used Win98 systems where the "temp" folder took up more than half the drive,
>and much of that stuff was several years old....
>
>David Gillett
>
>
>On 1 Feb 2006 at 3:03, Chilangisha B Changwe wrote:
>
> > 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.

Russ Poffenberger
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