Re: 3GB RAM and it's always telling me to close apps
Set your pagefile back to system managed and be done with it. Vista is very
smart in managing memory. It is when we humble users try to outfox the
system that we begin having problems.
--
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
"Greg" <greg_68@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, so I have Vista Ultimate 64-bit with 3GB of memory. I'm constantly
> having to reboot every few days because Vista will start telling me to
> close windows, all of which I need open so I can use them. When I look at
> how much of the Page File (according to Task Manager) is in use (when it
> pops that up), it's usually around 3.2GB out of 3.4GB. Even when I close
> all open windows it's still over 2GB, so re-opening everything again just
> gives me the same popup. The only way around it is to reboot and then it
> slowly goes back up to the popup and I'm forced to reboot all over again.
> Never had a memory problem using the exact same applications until I
> upgraded to Vista.
>
> The apps I normally have open are: E-Mail (the app that came with Vista),
> Firefox, FlashFXP, Visual Studio 2008, a few explorer windows, and Excel
> 2008. Every 2 or 3 days I'm forced to reboot. It's annoying as hell. I
> have 3GB of physical RAM, I shouldn't be having memory problems.
>
> I do have my swap file set to 512MB because letting Windows manage it was
> causing too much swapping and my system was extremely slow while it's
> constantly grinding the hard drive (lowering it 512MB showed a huge
> performance boost). Either way, I have 3GB of physical memory, it
> shouldn't be consuming more than that. When I reboot and load everything
> back up and start using it, Page File shows just over 1GB of memory.
> Apparently it goes up 1GB every day until I'm forced to reboot.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions? Any services I can turn off or am I screwed
> and have to hope they fix this in Windows 7?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg