Low virtual memory in Win2000!!!!!!

[usbnuts]

Hi, I have a PII 350 with 128MB RAM.

OS is W2000 SP1

Every morning, I have to open at least 3 browsers, FrontPage 2000, PhotoShop 4.0, and Windows Media Player 7.0 with 128kbps video news playing. However, after several hrs, performance degrades and the "low virtual memory" error message Win2000 pops up.

I did nothing to change the virtual memory setting.

But there's only less than 10000K left in the amount of memory available.

Okay, now, do I need more RAM or a new CPU?

I was thinking about upgrading the CPU. What do you think?

 

[FOBSIDE]

do both...win2k runs best with about 256 mb of ram. i guarantee you will feel the difference in ram levels if you upgrade to 256. ram is dirt cheap right now so go get some.

 

[Dulanic]

Go into VM and set it like Min 320 Max 320 and youll be set.

 

[Dulanic]

But it never hurts to get more RAM either BTW if 320 doesnt work raise it some more.

 

[usbnuts]

Thanks people. I think I will go with the extra 128MB RAM.

Do you think I should get the PC100 or PC133 RAM. I have PC100 RAM in my computer. Would mixing the two cause 'inconsistency'?

Thanks...

 

[Bozo]

Best to keep your RAM the same. Also, when you add more RAM increase the VM too. MS recommends RAM+12meg. More is even better. I have 256m RAM and my VM is set to Min & Max at 512m.

Bozo

 

[Ausm]

I would suggest getting more Ram also it made a world of difference for me..

AUsm

 

[ctll]

i'm runnin w2k adv srv w/ 256 one is pc100 the other is pc133. i put the 133 behind the 100. (0/1)

so if you buy the 133 you're ready for that future upgrade or overclock.

 

[ctll]

also if it says low virtual memory then maybe you're running out of disk space eh. clean some trash out maybe.

 

[ctll]

oh and like ausm said, more will be lots better. i went from 128...

 

[usbnuts]

I have 1.4GB free...

I also increased the VM, but the situation didn't get better.

The low memory seems to be gone, but EVERYTHING's running SLOOOWWWW...

I will get more RAM.

 

[macssuck]

With all the apps you are running you definitely need to upgrage to 256.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

If you get your RAM from a local computer shop, not Best Buy or some place like that...

You might be able to talk them into trading in your PC-100 RAM for PC-133 and just pay the difference ($5)...

It's worth a try and there is a slight performance increase as well...

 

[tcast305]

usbnuts: What version of Windows media player 7.0 do you have? (Beta or final) I had a user here on my network at work with Windows 2000 and WMP 7 beta, and he would get "low(or)out of virtual memory" after listening to streaming audio on the net for a couple of hours. Do this when it you get a low on virtual memory message or after a while of listening to streaming audio, go to your task manager (ctrl-alt-delete) and click on the processes tab and see how much memory is WMP is taking up. I did that here and WMP was taking about 300megs of memory. I just did a reinstall of the final version and everything is ok now.

 

[usbnuts]

tcast305: I started WMP and listened to Madonna's 700K DVD streams. The result is my system only had 4000K physical memory left.... I will reinstall the WMP. But I think the virtual low memory has to do with the amount of apps I have opened. Six so far, not including WMP.