My computer says Virtutal Memory is low? what does it means? and what should i do about it? is it bad??

Answer 1

how often?

1) close applications. do not keep applications open in the background.

2) increase the size of virtual memory allocation.

3) do a scan disk and defrag.

4) buy more raam.

Answer 2

Well, one option is that you may have several programs running at the same time. That certainly puts a demand on memory. Using few programs concurrently will help. Another option is to increase your virtual memory - which is the memory that Windows is talking about in your error message. Start, rightclick on My Computer and select Properties, then Advanced tab and then the Performance option. This shows the amount of disk space that Window has alloted for paging your software in and out. If your programs typically have lots of paging activity, this virtual memory may be too small, but here you can increase it. This increases a permanent disk allocation and I think a reboot is required. Don't go crazy here and increase to 20 gig or whatever.... :) Increase maybe half a gig or so, but not more than one gig would be my recommendation. The $$$ option is to buy more memory ALSO. Having more real memory reduces the need to page memory sections to hard drive and from your message, I would anticipate a noticable performance gain.

Answer 3

Your computer has three kidns of memory.

1) Permenant files on the hard drive
2) Temporary files on the RAM cards
3) Virtual Memory (aka Paging File)

Think of the virtual memory as a spillover for when the RAM cards run out of space, it is a lot more complex than that in reality, but thats a good laymans explanation.

Windows will fix that problem automatically by increasing the Paging File size for you.... don't tinker with it if you don't know what you're doing, it will "fix" itself each time it needs to.

Answer 4

Yes this is a bad thing

Your system main memory is the RAM.
Virtual memory is a certain amount of space on your hard disk. This space is being use when your RAM is running out of space. What your computer does is that is swap out inactive threads (programs) from your RAM to the virtual memory, to free up the ram for active threads.

This is fine but the process of swapping slows your system down.

Anyway, if your virtual memory is low, that means you're using alot of it. Of course you can handle this in two ways. Increase your RAM size, meaning to add more RAM, or you can let your PC use a larger portion of hard disk as virtual memory.

By adding ram, this will brings more performance gain to your computer, as you allow more threads to remains in your ram, so you reduce the usage of virtual memory, as well as prevent the threads swapping that uses up time.

To change your virtual memory configuration, go to My Computer. Right click anywhere, and select Properties

In this system properties window, go to the "Advance" tab. In the Performance box, click on Setting

In Performance window, go to Advance tab. Under the virtual memory box, it shows you your size of your virtual memory. You can click on change, to change the setting.

Answer 5

It means that u are using a huge part of your RAM. It may be because you are running too many programs at the same time. Try closing some of the programs. You may also have many programs running in the background, unknown to you e.g. Anti-virus. You may also want to upgrade your RAM if this happens very often.

Answer 6

sometimes happened to me when running AVG anti-virus.
Just means a programme is hogging a lot of memory and Windows will borrow some from somewhere else for the time being.
One of the reasons I ditched AVG

Answer 7

Buy more RAM -