Help with virtual memory setting

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1Ghz Athlon, 256Mb Ram, W2k + SP4

Just had to re-install, and program came up with the message
that there was not enough virtual memory.
I know where to make the adjustment, does anyone know
what size to set it at?
 
What is it set to now? A rule of thumb is to set it at 1.5 times RAM.
It also a good idea to set the minimum and maximum to the same size,
this prevents pagefile resizing that can lead to pagefile fragmentation.
So following these rules of thumb a good size would be 384MB.

John
 
John John said:
What is it set to now? A rule of thumb is to set it at 1.5 times RAM.
It also a good idea to set the minimum and maximum to the same size,
this prevents pagefile resizing that can lead to pagefile fragmentation.
So following these rules of thumb a good size would be 384MB.

John
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It's set at 384 min & 768 max.
Would this be the cause of the problem?
By the way, the program that gave the alert, was a DVD maker.
It happened while it was encoding the files, but adjusted itself, and
finished compiling the files.
I also have a problem with the PC freezing quite often, could this be
another thing linked to the virtual memory?
Many thanks for your help.
 
Win2k is happier with 512mb

Hans said:
It's set at 384 min & 768 max.
Would this be the cause of the problem?
By the way, the program that gave the alert, was a DVD maker.
It happened while it was encoding the files, but adjusted itself, and
finished compiling the files.
I also have a problem with the PC freezing quite often, could this be
another thing linked to the virtual memory?
Many thanks for your help.
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1 - Set it to 512 (or larger, if you have space) as DL suggests.
2 - Set min=max as John suggests.
3 - Run chkdsk. If it reports errors, run it with the /r parameter.
4 - Defrag your drive once chkdsk reports no errors.

If your system still misbehaves, then:

5 - Run the drive manufacturer's disk diagnostic to see if a hard drive
problem might be causing your system's freezing/stuttering as well as
the misbehavio0r you originally wrote about. The diagnostic can be
downloaded from their website. It runs as a bootable diskette.

Having done all the above, report results. There is probably no point in
posting back here before that.
It's set at 384 min & 768 max.
Would this be the cause of the problem?
By the way, the program that gave the alert, was a DVD maker.
It happened while it was encoding the files, but adjusted itself, and
finished compiling the files.
I also have a problem with the PC freezing quite often, could this be
another thing linked to the virtual memory?
Many thanks for your help.




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John John said:
How much free space do you have on the drive?

John
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C: Space available: 14458 MB

Total paging file size for all drives:
Min: 2MB
Rec: 382MB
Currently allocated: 1024MB (after resetting to 512+512)



 
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