Virtual memory?

Question

I have never touched my virtual memory before and ive heard that i can make it use a lot more, my minimum sayd 756 mb and the maximum is 1512mb.

What am I able to change it to, to make my computer fasterchange
Plz tell me the minimum and maximum

-Thanks

Answer 1

Here is what happening when you have a warning sign showing " virtual memory is low warning". Your computer uses physical memory, aka RAM, and virtual memory. Virtual memory is used to simulate more RAM when your computer is reaching its maximum CPU and RAM usage. It very similar to a bucket filling up with water. If your CPU needs water you can bring this resources to it. But your bucket size is limited. The more programs you use and disk space the more water is needed. But you can only deliver the set amount of water because your bucket size is limited. The bucket is your RAM. However, you can use a spare bucket to quickly to help meet the demand. The virtual memory is that spare bucket.

You can change your virtual memory by altering amount of free resources for your computer to use for it, in a sense making the spare bucket bigger. Virtual memory uses free space as a resource. So you can change the the amount free space reserved for the Virtual memory.

When you get to the Virtual Memory menu select the Custom Size check box. Then choose the initial size and the max size. Depending on how much free space you have you can choose what that amount of free space you want. If you are still confused the link below has a visual step by step instructions.

1.Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2.Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.
3.On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
4.Under Virtual memory, click Change.
5.Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change. In most computers its C:
6.Under Paging file size for selected drive, click to Custom size check box. You can enter the amount of memory you would like to reserve for Virtual memory by entering the initial and maximum size.
7.Click Set

Hot tip: Keep the initial and maximum size the same to cut down on your CPU access. This will stop your CPU from constantly change your Virtual memory paging size. Also set the size 1.5 times higher than your physical memory.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

In older windows OSes, manual setting the virtual memory was a way of gaining a little speed. In windows XP the memory management is a lot better and you will not usually see a large benefit from messing with virtual memory, in most cases.

Basically it boils down to this Virtual memory = hard drive = slow. Physical memory (ram) is many times faster. So you should try to use as little virtual memory as possible and a much physical memory as possible.

Your best bet is to let the OS manage the virtual memory. Then increase the amount of physical memory (ram) in your computer. With memory prices these days, you can easily and double your ram size for very little cost and see a big difference in your computers overall speed.

Good luck,

Jason.techguy

Answer 3

virtual memory is used when you system does not have enough memory for the programs being run. virtual memory is actually using your hard drive for memory. The hard drive is much much slower. However, you maximum is usually 1.5 times your system ram. The minimum is really doesn't matter because it will increase from that number to the maximum as needed.

Answer 4

Virtual memory is the slowest kind of memory that Windows uses. It uses your hard disk space as a memory. There are no objections to increasing your virtual memory but please be noted that using virtual memory instead of the conventional RAM will make your computer SLOW.

If you would like to change your virtual memory, right click on My computer, go to properties > advanced > (under the performance section) settings > advance. Under Vitual memory section, click change. Set the initial size and the maximum. After setting, click on the "set" button.

Done. But please don't be dissapointed to find out that your computer won't run any faster and your hard disk space will be less.....

Answer 5

Virtual memory will not make your system that much faster. Get more RAM (real memory).

Answer 6

(Jeff G) RAM stands for Random Access Memory not real memory

Answer 7

i went to the help and support icon on my pc and looked it up. it will tell you how to calculate it

Answer 8

leave it alone.