Re: Virtual Memory Error

From: Stuart Mueller (I.Dont.Have_at_email.address)
Date: 04/20/04


Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:41:50 +0100

Dave put finger to keyboard and typed:
> I have a user that if he leaves his laptop on overnight he has a low
> virtual memory error in the morning when he comes in. He reboots and
> works fine the rest of the day. I have run spybot and ad-aware,
> defraged his hard drive (>10 gigs free) removed weatherbug and a
> stock ticker program he had installed and verified all other apps on
> the laptop are standard for this location. He has 512 meg of RAM and
> I set virtual memory at 525 and 525. McAfee is current and runs on
> logon and at noon each day. Thanks for any ideas. I'm lost on this
> one.

your minimum virtual memory size should be at least 1.5 time the amount of
RAM.
your maximum is set at 3 times the amount.

I set my min and max for teh same value though as it gives you a bigger
page file and reduces the amount of time when the OS increases it



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