Insufficent Memory

[CyNics]

I've 384MB of memory installed on my system and I'm running WinXP. Recently, after using director 8 and adobe photoshop 6 for an hour or so, a windows warning box pop up showing me my memory was low. I checked my memory usage using task manager and there was more than 128MB of memory left. So, what is going on? I can open up more than 12 IEs and have my memory level as low as 40mb, windows won't complains about memory low but it happens when I'm running director 8 and photoshop 6 with memory level as low as 128MB. I checked my memory using memtest and my memory is OK. everything is good except this memory low problem. I set my memory usage setting (system properties\advanced\performance\advanced) to PROGRAM, is it going to solve my problem if I set it to SYSTEM CACHE? My virtual memory is 256-768 on my winxp partition. I heard that there is a registry tweak which will force windows to use all my physical memory before using the virtual memory, is that going to help me to solve this problem? thanks

 

[RubZie]

In PS (and director too i think) u can set the max mem used by the program (ctrl-k, go to mem and scratch disks). Check if those settings aren't too high, maybe test around with them to see when xp gives the warning.

 

[Nothinman]

Lots of programs require pagefile space even if you have free physical memory, it's just how they're designed. Make your pagefile bigger, 1.5x to 2.0x is the average recommended.

 

[CyNics]

my pagefile is 1-2gb..I think that is more than enough ??

 

[Nothinman]

my pagefile is 1-2gb..I think that is more than enough ??

One would think that's enough, but if you're getting that error then it's probably not. Set task manager to show you the VM Size and Peak Mem Usage and see if you can find the offender and possibly tweak it to be more conservative.

 

[iCore]

I dont know the answer but could it be resource memory that ran low? Or is there no such thing? 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

I dont know the answer but could it be resource memory that ran low? Or is there no such thing?

The Win9X line are the only OSes that suffer from that sh!t design decision.