What should I set my virtual memory on ? I keep getting message that it's set too low?

Answer 1

Microsoft has numbers that pop-up that are kinna weird. I set the initial at 1536 and max at 3000. These are numbers that newer computers are set at by default.

If you have a huge harddrive, like 150+ GB, set it at 3000 initial and 6000 max. Reboot the computer and check to see if windoze reset it.

Answer 2

Normally, you never touch your virtual memory settings. Windows will choose a default size, when it runs out of virtual memory, it will increase the size of the page file. If it happens again, it increases again. Usually, this is an indication that you need more system memory. Also, you may have some program on your machine that is mafunctioning and using too much memory, an easy way to check for this is to ctrl-alt-delete and look under processes, sort it by memory usage and see what's using the most.

Answer 3

Where do I set the placing and size of the page file?

At Control Panel | System | Advanced, click Settings in the “Performance” Section. On the Advanced page of the result, the current total physical size of all page files that may be in existence is shown. Click Change to make settings for the Virtual memory operation. Here you can select any drive partition and set either ‘Custom’; ‘System Managed’ or ‘No page file’; then always click Set before going on to the next partition.

Answer 4

I have reasonable doubt that it was the right interpretation of the error message, because Windows nowadays manage virtual memory automatically by default, the technical term involves "paging" it is a file on hard drive.

If you never touched this type of settings, it is a file managed by Windows growing automatically on the boot drive that Windows itself is on and the error is in fact out of drive space to grow. If you did change this the optimal size of such file is double of your actual RAM size as recommended by Linux setups.