Virtual Memory paging problem

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Devon

For a while now I have been getting warnings that my
virtual memory is low during start up and it interupts
several different applications. It provides a list of
instructions for how to increase or change the virtual
memory paging file, and I have tried this on several
occasions. However, no matter what I do, these problems
persist. I continue to be warned about low virtual memory
and it restricts the use of certain applications. Anyone
encounter or hear about a problem like this before?

Thanks
 
Heh, that's the instructions that it gave which I tried
and it failed. I'm not -that- stupid.
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Devon said:
For a while now I have been getting warnings that my
virtual memory is low during start up and it interupts
several different applications. It provides a list of
instructions for how to increase or change the virtual
memory paging file, and I have tried this on several
occasions. However, no matter what I do, these problems
persist. I continue to be warned about low virtual memory
and it restricts the use of certain applications. Anyone
encounter or hear about a problem like this before?

Thanks
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Devon wrote in

Is the paging file (pagefile.sys) actually resized after you make the
change and reboot? Do you have enough un-fragmented free space on the
volume to actually create a contigous file of that size?
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The page file need not be contiguous on disk (and often is not). But how
much free disk space do you have?
 
Paul Dietrich wrote in
The page file need not be contiguous on disk (and often is not).
But how much free disk space do you have?
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"Paul"
Indeed, but the NTx will make an _attempt_ to locate a contigous
block for a _new_ paging file IIRC. Whether that can interfere on a
manual resizing is not clear to me. Definitely, "growing" the
pagefile.sys can lead to fragmentation. If you have more on this,
I'm interested. Free space or ACLs seem the OP's most likely
problems to me.
 
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