Out of virtual memory your system is low on virtual memory
After using the laptop for some hours, I get a popup message that says "Out of virtual memory : Your system is low on virtual memory. To ensure that Windows runs properly, increase the size of your virtual memory paging file. For more information, see Help."
This is a Windows 7 laptop, 8GB memory, 64 bit.
After the popup shows up, the computer display is all messed up and the computer does not respond to most commands. If right click on the taskbar, a popup comes up, but there are no texts on the popup. Also there are no texts shown on the start menu and the start menu is not completely/properly displayed. This goes on till I restart.
I looked in the event viewer and saw event IDs 26 and 2004.
This is a Windows 7 laptop, 8GB memory, 64 bit.
After the popup shows up, the computer display is all messed up and the computer does not respond to most commands. If right click on the taskbar, a popup comes up, but there are no texts on the popup. Also there are no texts shown on the start menu and the start menu is not completely/properly displayed. This goes on till I restart.
I looked in the event viewer and saw event IDs 26 and 2004.
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OK, try it BEFORE your laptop locks up.
If possible, open all programs that you, regularly use (browsers, ms office appliccations, audio/video players, any other applicattions that you might be using). Open task manager, sort running applications by memory consumption (click on memory button to sort), take a screen shot of processes tab and dump it here.
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Thanks. I increased the paging file size to 12GB (was automatically set to 4GB before, which was low). Haven'd received any complaints about it since).
I did not suggest increasing pagefile size at first because I find it strange that you would need so much virtual memory. Did you every find out what is using up so much?
Its good to know that your issue is now resolved. However, I too think that this is not a permanent solution. As stated before:
Open all your applications that you use, open task manager and look for Physical Memory percentage at bottom right. If it is getting high (probably 70-80 % and above), go to processes tab, click on Memory and see which programs are consuming much memory. Probably there is a memory leak (unless you are not using any audio/video/photo encoding / decoding / rendering applications OR application of these type)
If there is a memory leak, increasing the page file doesn't help. It may SLOW your computer's performance.
** Higher the page file size (on hdd), slower will be the performance in long run.
Reason: Data transfer will be LOT faster if your data is residing on RAM rather than the page file (hdd) as RAMs have MUCH MUCH high input/output transfer times with respect to HDDs.
Open all your applications that you use, open task manager and look for Physical Memory percentage at bottom right. If it is getting high (probably 70-80 % and above), go to processes tab, click on Memory and see which programs are consuming much memory. Probably there is a memory leak (unless you are not using any audio/video/photo encoding / decoding / rendering applications OR application of these type)
If there is a memory leak, increasing the page file doesn't help. It may SLOW your computer's performance.
** Higher the page file size (on hdd), slower will be the performance in long run.
Reason: Data transfer will be LOT faster if your data is residing on RAM rather than the page file (hdd) as RAMs have MUCH MUCH high input/output transfer times with respect to HDDs.
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