Windows XP memory error message

zachareth SG

I was running a simulation halfway when an error message came on from the taskbar tray: ‘Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. During this process, memory requests for some applications may be denied. For more information, see Help.’

The task manager still indicates the simulation is running. Is this serious? I am worried I may have to restart the simulation which takes a week to run. I googled for help on the Microsoft website but no useful info.

My CPU is Xeon quad core 3.2GHZ, 6GB RAM, 64bit windows XP Professional. HDD 80GB free.

Thanks in advance.

Raraken SG

Simulation? What simulation are your running? 6 GB should be more than enough, unless you are doing some serious rendering or you are a researcher doing stuff similar to [email protected]

Anyway, it shouldn't be too serious, and your simulation shouldn't be affected.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

What simulation are you running that Windows could run out of virtual memory?

Jiemin SG

Just go sys prop - advance tab - performance - settings - advance tab again - "change" - amend the initial size to the same figure as maximum size will do