out of memory?

[siranthony]

The other day I was watching a couple of clips in Real One player. I also had a couple of explorer windows open. Win XP told me I was out of memory and needed to close somthing before I could play the next clip. This is the fst time this has happeed to me with 512mb ram. Is it just an unusual thing? Or do I need more memory?

Oh and by the way. Thanks to all you guys who gave info. It helped alot with my new system build decisions. Things are pretty much squared away with my new system. Time to get on to other things like gaming. HL2 I'm waitng.

P4 2.4c @ 3.0
ASUS P4P800 dx
Geil pc4000 2.5,3,3,6 250FSB 1:1
Radeon 9500 non-pro
2 Maxtor 60gig 7200rpm 8mb cach in raid 0
SB Audigy 2
Maudio delta 66 with omni studio

 

[Guest]

What are your virtual memory settings?
right click on my computer/propreties/advanced/Performance options/change.
I would suggest to put it to a fixed value, 1.5X the ammount of ram you got. so something like 768meg. If you have a second hard drive put the page file on the one not running windows might speed up thing a little.
Thats the only thing I can think of that could cause that message with win2k and 512 meg of ram...

 

[siranthony]

Thanks for the response. Your right my virtual memory is at 1.5 gig. I think what caused it is I installed win xp with 1 gig of memory. Then I returned the memory and got 512 of somthing else. I'm kind of curious why this happens. Is it because windows sets the virtual memory to 1.5 times the physical memory. So it assumes you have 1 gig of physical memory. Therfore it never uses the hard drive as virtual memory until the physical memory is used up? If that makes any sence.

These specs are here so I don't have to repeat them. P4 2.4c @ 3.0 ASUS P4P800 dx Geil pc4000 2.5,3,3,6 250FSB 1:1 Radeon 9500 non-pro 2 Maxtor 60gig 7200rpm 8mb cach in raid 0 SB Audigy 2

 

[Toejam31]

Here's an article you should find very interesting:

<A HREF="http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php" target="_new">Virtual Memory in Windows XP</A>

And since you've made some changes to the physical memory, I'd do some testing, just in case:

<A HREF="http://www.memtest86.com/" target="_new">Memtest 86</A>

Toey

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[siranthony]

Thanks for the information. This will help. I bet with all the overclocking experimenting I did my page file is corrupt.

These specs are here so I don't have to repeat them. P4 2.4c @ 3.0 ASUS P4P800 dx Geil pc4000 2.5,3,3,6 250FSB 1:1 Radeon 9500 non-pro 2 Maxtor 60gig 7200rpm 8mb cach in raid 0 SB Audigy 2