Re: trying to fix low memory warning

From: Jack E Martinelli (jemartin_DELETE_at_NO_SPAM_gis.net)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:32:16 -0500

I beg to differ. If the installed memory is small, and the executing apps
demand such memory space, and the page file cannot enlarge to meet the
demand, the system will crash.
I am happy to be corrected if wrong, but that is my understanding. 

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"Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@tenretnitb.com> wrote in message
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> Jack
>
> You should not need a 2 gb pagefile. That's way over the top!
>
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> "Jack E Martinelli" <jemartin_DELETE@NO_SPAM_gis.net> wrote in message
> news:eEHqUB3EFHA.3732@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> > Only following up the very fine advice previously state here:  your
> > first
> > choice of 2 GB for the OS partition ignored the need of 2 GB for the
> > page
> > file alone.  Therefore, the need for a much larger partition, to run
> > XP, as
> > Alex Nichol stated.
> >
> > I concur with the requests / suggestions to use a partition manager to
> > resize the OS partition.  This avoids the OS reinstallation.
> > BootIT will do it.  Just use the floppies to resize, and don't install
> > BootIt on the HD, to avoid installing the boot manager also, if you so
> > choose.
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> > "bbbrain" <bbbrain@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:E03D3590-C112-4E48-A8BB-3B5AB1ED7BBD@microsoft.com...
> >> I get a message that I am dangerously low on memory and that I should
> > delete
> >> unecessary files.  I have tried but can't seem to delete anymore.
> >> And am
> > not
> >> sure what might happen even if I do.
> >>
> >> After reading Instructions on setting up XP, I created a boot
> >> partition
> > with
> >> 2.0 GB -- the advice being that windows was about 600MB and that
> >> should be
> >> sufficient.  Windows folder is now 1.73 GB (I assume because of
> > upgrades)and
> >> other untransferable folders make up over 200MB.  The harddrive has
> >> over
> > 25
> >> GB free in the data partition and over 5 GB unallocated space.  I
> >> can't
> >> backup the whole boot partition - I assume because I don't have
> >> enough
> >> memory. I also can't backup the whole data partition either. The boot
> > floppy
> >> doesn't have everything either.   I have decided I need to reinstall
> >> XP
> > and
> >> just take my losses, resize the boot partition.
> >> Help....
> >
> >
>

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