What is the virtual memory of the computer? whenever I downloaded it says virtual memory low.....Pls.. help?

Question

whenever i download it just go until 99% and will only continue pending but cant actually move on what should i do??? thanks

Answer 1

Virtual memory is the use of your hard disk in place of physical memory or RAM. The problem with this is that the hard disk is much slower than physical memory so it will bog down the system and slow down other data transactions the computer is trying to make with the hard disk.

Solution... buy more ram. You can increase the virtual memory size to get rid of the error, but you won't be running any faster.

Also... you may want to check for running programs that have memory leaks. These are applications or services that do no unallocated unused memory. Check your task manager using alt_ctrl_del and click the processes tab. look at the memory usage. You can also click the performance tab. the page file size will give you a good approximation of how much virtual memory you are using.

Answer 2

Virtual memory is a temporal space or cache that is being secure on your Hard Drive by your Ram for temporal operations.
So that your Ram can operate with some pace without which you will continue to have slow motion operations.Increased your Ram to the Reccomended level as per your O/S.

Answer 3

Assuming you are running on Windows XP:

Right click on My computer.
Select Properties
Then click the Advanced tab
On the first "box" You will see a blue title called Performance, click on the Settings button and a pop up windows will appear
Go to the Advanced tab in there, and at the last "box" you see the Virtual Memory allocation. Click on Change
Then on the Maximum Size text box, put 753. Click SET
Then just you out of there by clicking the OK button on the other windows.... Remember to click ok on EVERY window....

Restart your system.

Answer 4

your windows is using a little of your space as a RAM.!
you can increase your virtual memory by right click on My Computer and selecting Properties>Advanced then click the first Setting then click Advanced and then click the Change button on the bottom of the window. in this windows you can increase your virtual memory!
Good Luck!

Answer 5

Virtual memory or virtual memory addressing is a memory management technique, used by multitasking computer operating systems wherein non-contiguous memory is presented to a software (aka process) as contiguous memory. This contiguous memory is referred to as the virtual address space.

Non technically speaking, this is memory used to store temporary processes used by the software on you computer. You can adjust this setting by going to your Contorl Panel > System > Advanced>Performance>Settings>Advanced. THat should resolve this issue for you.

Answer 6

your virtual memory is a cache file windows writes to the harddrive to free up ram to use in programs. If you have not changed the settings, you need to reboot and it dumps the virtual memory

Answer 7

As one other person answered, it's "memory" data that is swapped out to your hard drive from your RAM memory. If your system is saying you are low on virtual memory frequently, you either have the size of the file set too small or you are running out of room on your hard disk.

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;837869

Answer 8

virtual memory is the space of the RAM which is used when we work on a pc .
Purchase a ram of higher configuration and ur problem will be solved.

Answer 9

You're computer probably needs more RAM for the speed you're downloading at. When this happens you can reboot and it resets (all memory is lost.)

Answer 10

You have too many programs running in the background, your memory doesn't have the capacity to handle it all. Close out all of the unnecessary things in the background and try it again.