Running out of memory

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Walt Smith

Running several applications during the day (TI2000i, J-trader -- ie. life
feeds, etc.) and using WIN XP with 1GB RAM, I get message it is " low in
virtual Memeory" , causing it to not be able to print, etc. Checking task
manager, we still have 300MB avaialbale memory. Installed MEM TURBO which
may not made a difference. Re-boot is the onle remedieChecking Virual and
memory allocation, none of the programs have high numbers. (checking for
memory leaks_! This problem occurs also with WIN2K.

Can I tune the system for us to use the available RAM? Any other
suggestions?
 
Virtual Memory has nothing to do with physical RAM. You need to increase
the pagefile size!
 
This may not be your fix, but...
We've noticed memory errors whenever the pagefile is less
than the "suggested" size. When we get the errors, we
adjust the pagefile to equal or be greater-than the
suggested size and the problems go away. So the errors are
common on machines where techs have increased the physical
RAM without re-adjusting the pagefile size. A rul-of-thumb
(which varies according to who's thumb you're talking
about) is that your minimum pagefile size should be at
least 50% bigger than the physical RAM size.
This seems ridiculous when you have tons of RAM and don't
ever want to use pagefiles. That seems to be the way NT-
based Windows was designed. It doesn't matter that you
have plenty of memory, it will complain anyway, because it
was designed to complain in those situations. It
apparently complains according to percentages or ratios,
not by need.
 
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