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| Thread ID: 32602 | 2003-04-23 12:28:00 | In Win2000, how can I let Windows manage the virtual memory or paging file? | PoWa (203) | Press F1 |
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| 138229 | 2003-04-23 12:28:00 | I have need of some big video editing and I need the paging file/ virtual memory to be managed by windows. (I don't want it set to a specific maximum) So far I went: Right Click on 'My Computer' and select properties, Then click on the Advanced tab, Under performance, I clicked settings. It has an option to change the minimum and maximum size of the paging file, but where is the option to let windows manage it?? I ran into this problem when making an avi file, it said I had insufficient virtual memory to complete the task. Well I've increased it to about 2Gb maximum now, but I don't think that will be quite enough because the file I am converting from is 4gb. Isn't windows supposed to refresh this paging file so new stuff can be added to it?? hard drive space left is just under 4gb |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 138230 | 2003-04-23 13:02:00 | Without going into detail, what you ask is not possible in Windows 2000. Fit a second hard drive of sufficent capacity and relocate the paging file to there, setting the maximum size to suit. |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 138231 | 2003-04-23 13:52:00 | How come? In 98, Me and Xp it lets windows control the virtual memory..why not in 2000? Also slight problem with adding an extra hard drive - its a laptop :) |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 138232 | 2003-04-24 00:41:00 | > How come? In 98, Me and Xp it lets windows control > the virtual memory..why not in 2000? Hi, From the time you installed 2000 (without changing any of the minimum and maximum settings), Windows has already managed your virtual memory by default. Only difference is, that 2000, doesn't display the option message...."Let Windows manage my virtual memory settings blah blah blah.... when it already has done it for you. |
The Student (3269) | ||
| 138233 | 2003-04-24 01:28:00 | Oh, but it does... In Win2K it does.. It tells you what it thinks therecommended should be, so set that to the minimum, and add as much more as you think you can spare as a MAX. It'll give you a warning, saying that Windows is increasing the Virtual Memory size, when it needs some more than the minimum! I currently have 512MB RAM on an AMD Athlon XP 1700+, and my Virtual Memory is set to 64MB.. It reakons I need 766MB thou, but I know its not even using half of my RAM, let alone that much of the pagefile ;-) It hasnt asked me since I got it if it can increase the pagefile size coz of the amount of RAM I have, currently Im using 135ish MB RAM... So thats a lot spare... Im surfing, playing MP3's... Capturing Video, Download MP3's, chatting, using a Remote Administrator (rAdmin.com's RAdmin), and im only at that.. so yeah, dont be fooled into having a super huge page file if it aint even using all your RAM. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc and click on the Performance tab, it tells you how much RAM windows is using :-) Hope this helps Cheers Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 138234 | 2003-04-24 02:51:00 | I increased the Max size of the paging file to 4095mb last night, and yea Windows said it was increasing the size of the paging file ;) Everything was ok while it was encoding my video until......Windows decided not to manage my RAM as well!!! I got an error with Vidomi saying windows didn't have sufficient ram to complete the operation and Vidomi was stopping....And that all happened on the 3rd and final pass with 19secs left on the clock!! (It was 98.5% done). Man that annoyed me, cos encoding takes about 5 hours to do :\ Stupid windows. Could the fact that I set the thread priority to high have had anything to do with it? I guess I'll have to try again, but this time with FreeMem installed on it.. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 138235 | 2003-04-24 03:01:00 | I think it was disk you ran out of . The error message probably just means that you filled the disk with the swap file (=virtual memory) . With less than 4GB free disk, you are in trouble: you told Windows it could use up to 4GB . A 40Gb or 80Gb disk added to the system would help . :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 138236 | 2003-04-24 03:19:00 | I don't think it was VMem. It might have been, I checked that before I rebooted it said windows was only using 1.8Gb of swap... I might clear a little junk off the hard drive and try again... I had the Vmem set to a max of 4095...I think there was 4400Mb left on that partition. In the other partition I was putting the divX file and that had about 2.7Gb free. Cheers |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 138237 | 2003-04-24 07:22:00 | I find in Win2K, stability is best kept if you set the process to High, and not RealTime! | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 138238 | 2003-04-24 10:20:00 | From: The Student > Only difference is, that 2000, doesn't display the option message . . . . "Let > Windows manage my virtual memory settings blah blah blah . . . . when it > already has done it for you . From: Chilling Silence > Oh, but it does . . . Ok Chilling Silently, if you don't mind me asking, but where does it say "Let Windows manage my virtual settings etc . . . "? > In Win2K it does . . It tells you what it thinks > therecommended should be, so set that to the minimum, > and add as much more as you think you can spare as a > MAX . Ok I agree It gives you something like the following information: Initial Size, Maximum Size, Minimum allowed, Recommended, Currently Allocated blah blah blah . . . . So where oh where can I see that message? Had to ask thou . . . |
The Student (3269) | ||
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