Low Virtual Memory

[Bored Gal]

First here's the PC Specs:

Gateway
Pentium 4 1.8GHz
256MB RAM
Windows 2K

The PC, for no rhyme or reason, will run very slooooooow, then it will come up with a Low Virtual Memory warning. I have increased the virtual memory x2. It's okay about 50% of the time then for no reason, it will slow and get the warning again.

I called Gateway and they said it was the network, which I'm not so sure of being that this PC is the only one with the problem.

Any ideas

You might have an application or service running in the background that is hogging everything.

Post a full list of your services that are running. You can probably weed out some uneeded ones.

[Bored Gal]

I can't get the screen print of the services to attach (it's too big apparently) Anyway, there should be nothing out of the ordinary running. - Network services, Norton, etc. I currently have 12 applications open, have printed, etc, and the CPU usage is still at 2%.

[i c roYal]

i highly doubt it's the network. How would the network be causing a virtual memory error. What's your free space? If you have space, increase the size of the pagefile. Scan for viruses, scan for spyware using a utility called ad-aware which can be found at www.download.com. If you don't have much free-space, that's probably why your getting the virtual memory error. Try deleting applications that are not needed, do a defrag, search for .tmp and .bak files and delete them as they're not really needed.

[Bored Gal]

3.58 GB of the Hard drive is used, leaving 15.0 GB free, which is plenty. I've already ran a virus scan and found nothing. I have not yet tried to defrag the drive, but I doubt it will make a difference.

Is it possible that there's something weird with the ram?

"Automatice Update" and "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" could cause VM issues.

You NAV could as well.

Try disabling any and all services that you don't need. See if you get the same messages.

[PresterJohn]

>I currently have 12 applications open

what 12 apps do you frequently run? just because your cpu usage is 2%...it doesn't preclude that you won't have VM warnings.

[kryer]

Hi! Ever since we switched to XP, we have had that same problem with about a third (if not more) of our computers (400) here on campus. I agree about this problem not being network because it does just do it some and not others. And it isn't limited space because our HD's range from 20-60 GB.
We haven't found the solution, but we are still looking.

[sooty75]

I've got exactly the same problem and have put it down to running Nortons AntiVirus 2002 on Windows XP Home. For some reason NAV hogs all the virtual memory. I've looked on various websites and found no real help. The biggest problem with this is it's a intermittent fault.

Symantec has denied this problem exists because the '... can't reproduce the fault...'. Hmmm... poor programming I reckon.

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