Virtual Memory?

drummerboy678drummerboy678
edited June 2005 in Hardware
Hey guys,
I was rendering some video in Adobe Premiere 1.5 Pro overnight, and when I got back in the morning, the rendering stopped halfway, and it had a message in the bottom left corner saying "system is low on virtual memory." (or something like that).

The computer has been running a little slow lately. I wasn't sure what this message meant.

I have 1gb of corsair ram in it, and plenty of hard drive space.

Can someone tell me where I can find a reading of virtual memory, what it is, or how I can clear it out?


Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Comments

  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    virtual memory is anything that is not in your physical memory (1gb corsair).

    ie, when your system runs out of memory in the corsair it will start using hard drive space. in windows this hard drive space is in a file called your page file. if you run low on virtual memory that means your page file was jsut about full..

    you msut have been using a ton of memory rendering whatever yo uwere rendering. id suggest going through the premiere settings and tweaking something because your getting a memory leak.

    also make sure you ahvent messed with your virtual memory settings in windows, best to leave them at default.
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited June 2005
    More RAM would help. How much do you have?
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    He has 1GB of corsair RAM there buddy :thumbsup:
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited June 2005
    I guess I should start reading the whole thing, huh? 1GB is pretty nice, is your computer loaded with a bunch of programs that run in the background, or was the computer doing something else that uses a lot of memory?
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited June 2005
    press windows key + pause/break key
    click advanced, click settings under performance
    click advanced, click change

    tell us how your drives are configured. if you have system managed size selected, you should be fine, but you can try a larger page file (maybe 2x your ram?)
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    try 3x physical mem
  • drummerboy678drummerboy678
    edited June 2005
    Thanks for the reply's. The video had so many effects and files in it, it just really slowed down the computer.
    It had about 200 pictures imported as well, and I imported them as photoshop .psd's. After the problem with the memory, I re-saved them all as .jpg's, and that made the system run fine.

    Thanks for the help though... Didn't really know much about virtual memory.


    Thanks again
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