virtual memory problem

[thebirdf]

hey guys can someone help me out and tell me what this mean it popup and then i have restart my computer becuse it slow down ???

"this windows popsup"


windows- virtual memory minimun too low
your system is low on virtual memory windows is increasting the size of your virtual memory paging file during the process memory reguest for some applicationmaybe denied for info see help

[Soopafresh]

You could be out of space on your hard drive.

[DennisHagemann]

I get this message during encoding in Adobe Primere Elements 2. Doesn't seem to cause any problems thought. I am running 1gb memory with a paging file fixed at 750mb.

[deckard8]

Very possibly a virus/spyware infestation.
Run a full scan with your antivirus, then download
Spybot and demo of Ewido and run scans with them.

[thebirdf]

hey deckard8 thanks for the tip did what u said then download Spybot and demo of Ewido and run scans with them and find a lot of virus/spyware infestation like you said and now its running good appreciated that very much deckard8 8)

[mats.hogberg]

In my book, at least as much page file as physical mem - 1.5 times is a rule of thumb.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

If you are running XP, let windows take care of the page file itself. It actually does a pretty good job.

If you are running 2000, start at 1.5 times physical memory. When I ran 2000 I used 2.5 times physical memory, and fixed the pagefile size.

That said, the message above can also be symptomatic of a memory leak somewhere is the system. Could be a background app (firewall, antivirus, print monitoring software etc). We had a print server that started coming up with this when we upgraded the HP Jetdirect Webadmin services. You could in fact sit and watch the system monitor and see the memory usage slowly climb for no good reason. Shutdown that service, everything ran smoothly, start it up and let it run, and you would not get 24 hours out of the system before you started getting the same message you are seeing. Use the task manager to see what you memory usage is, and what each process is using.