On 28/03/2011 19:08, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , Tinkerer invalidaddress@in
validaddress.invalid writes

Its not that clever actually. Messages about shortage of virtual
memory are quite common and are normally cured by removing that tick
and setting the virtual memory size to at least 50% above actual
memory size.

If the system is hitting the pagefile to any great extent, the best
thing to do is to add more memory, not fart about with the pagefile
settings.

IIRC he said his MB was crammed to the gills anyway - 1GB.

Indeed...

I wouldn't run any kind of any windows on that frankly. Is dog slow with
more than a single GUI app running on even Linux.

It's not that bad actually; at least for my purposes, which is mainly
web stuff and M$-Office. It's certainly improved no end for having been
reformatted (and having introduced just a new physical drive C: and a
new dedicated swapfile partition, maybe).

I know it's on borrowed time, but I reckon this will happily stave off
the purchase of a new machine for another year or so! Interestingly, as
part of the reinstall, I logged on to Dell's website to check drivers;
they have a system where you enter a service tag and it pops up with
your machine and its exact spec at the time you bought it. Turns out I
bought mine as long ago as 2002(!) which I find hard to believe, and it
had a whopping 128Mb of RAM, with which it ran Windows XP (equally hard
to believe).

Still none the wiser about optimum swapfile settings though! Seems to
be a mystery AFAICS.

David