Virtual Memory is full ???

minoukat · Mar 9, 2002

k, I'm running this comp for almost 1 entire day, and now it says the paging file is full ??? (win2k) my virtual memory is set to abotu 700 MB, how can it be filled up in such little time ? And how can I clean it up ?

cw823 · Mar 9, 2002

minoukat said:
k, I'm running this comp for almost 1 entire day, and now it says the paging file is full ??? (win2k) my virtual memory is set to abotu 700 MB, how can it be filled up in such little time ? And how can I clean it up ?

I have my swap file set to 64 Mb.....700 is a lot. How much physical memory do you have? (RAM)

David · Mar 9, 2002

He has 192MB - says so in his sig.

Try letting windows manage virtual memory or increase it to 1Gig+.
What sort of things are you doing on your PC?

cw823 · Mar 9, 2002

PenguinFreak said:
He has 192MB - says so in his sig.

Try letting windows manage virtual memory or increase it to 1Gig+.
What sort of things are you doing on your PC?

LOL. My bad. He also needs a better power supply.

minoukat · Mar 9, 2002

PenguinFreak said:
He has 192MB - says so in his sig.

Try letting windows manage virtual memory or increase it to 1Gig+.
What sort of things are you doing on your PC?

I play games (almost always lagging), download some stuff, make some video editing (sometimes), type stuff, use it for surfing, ... Basically I do everything on this computer. Isn't Windows 2000 supposed to have a better memory management ? How come this happens ?

minoukat · Mar 9, 2002

here's a screenshot of the Task Manager (performance tab) :

pcgirl · Mar 9, 2002

Whoa....something's eating up your memory and processor...do you have any programs that may be running in the background shut down?

minoukat · Mar 9, 2002

for the processor, I'm running Folding@Home, that's about it (that I run, the rest is a Windows app or service). Processes pic :

Crash893 · Mar 9, 2002

show us a screen shot of what processes you have running

mabey there are some real resorse hogs in there

EDIT doh: i guess we posted at teh same time

im takeing a look at it now

Crash893 · Mar 9, 2002

are you sure all 192mb of your ram are being recongized by the comptuer

looks to me like you only have 64 in there

cw823 · Mar 9, 2002

crash893 said:
are you sure all 192mb of your ram are being recongized by the comptuer

looks to me like you only have 64 in there

Actually you can't see from that screen shot the total physical memory....you'd need to go to the performance tab in task manager....lower right side lists total physical memory.

minoukat · Mar 9, 2002

Yup, Windows recognizes everything (188MB, cuz 4 MB are "used" for the onboard video card). it's very strange, as isn't windows supposed to free the page file once the application is shut down ?

Dug · Mar 9, 2002

Could you please post a COMPLETE picture of your Processes window (enlarge the window until the scroll bar is gone)

minoukat · Mar 9, 2002

what I posted was a complete pic, if you still see the scroll bar it's cuz after the last entry (IExplore.exe I think) there's an empty line, that's taking up some space and generating the scroll bar.

minoukat · Mar 13, 2002

ok, what if I shut down the virtual memory entirely ? Will my 192MB be enough for Windows 2000 and other apps to work ?

Crash893 · Mar 13, 2002

i dont think that would solve the problem

beucase if you indeed had 192 mb working it wouldnt fill up in the first place

minoukat · Mar 13, 2002

what could cause this fillup ? is it folding ? as it runs all day long. or a background app ?

Dug · Mar 14, 2002

It is probably just a bad application. When you get the error, you are running low on virutal memory, open task manager and see which process is leaking memory. Just close that application (or end task) and restart it if you want it to run. You might want to try reinistalling it or find a newer version, if possible.

minoukat · Mar 14, 2002

ok, my "Commit Charge" is full. I have 4** MB available for this, and it still fills up during the night. How come ? and BTW my physical memory is fine, it's staying stable at 79MB free

Crash893 · Mar 14, 2002

was this a one time thing
if so it was probably just a glitch

i thought you were getting this every single time

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