Your computer is running low on memory

eyethoughtso wrote on 1/1/2008, 9:10 AM

Hi Everybody,
Happy New Year. I just put a new flick on the web. When I go to view it, the media player pops up a window that says "your Computer is running low on memory. Quit other programs, and then try again."

I didn't get this message yesterday. Did I render the movie differently? I don't see anything different on the save as or render. Where do I look for changes. I closed other programs and just had the IE open with the video trying to play. I opened the task manager and closed a few processes. But still no success. I tried searching this search first. Any suggestions. (Please don't say "Quit other programs and then try again.") I have 3 GB of memory.
Thanks,
Jeff

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Former user wrote on 1/1/2008, 9:16 AM

Check your harddrive as well. It might be low on file swap space.

Dave T2

eyethoughtso wrote on 1/1/2008, 9:18 AM

Wow, That was quick. I love this place!!! I have two hardrives with tons of available space. (300 GB)

craftech wrote on 1/1/2008, 10:30 AM

Run System Monitor and see what your average available resources are when you are doing your normal computing activities. You may have too many "tasks" running at the same time many of which are unnecessary and consume a large portion of your resources.

In terms of Virtual memory, I am not sure how you have it configured:

Click Start, then open the Control Panel.

Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.

Click the Advanced tab.

Under Performance, click Settings.

Click the Advanced tab.

Under Virtual memory, click Change.

Most people have Windows configuring the virtual memory, but some use a manually configured swap file. Tell us the way yours is set up.

The best option is to move your paging file to a separate hard drive instead of the C: drive (unless the other drive is slower than the main drive), but we need to know which way yours is presently set up.

Windows XP has a recommended default page file size of 1.5 times the amount of system RAM.

Under Performance Options"
You should choose the option "Programs" for "Adjust for Best Performance of:

Under Performance Options / Visual Effects try adjust for Best Performance.

If you don't like what it does try Custom and then uncheck all the visual effects except the last three.

And on the desktop right click choose Properties/Appearance
Effects
Untick the first two boxes.

See how that works. You can always enable them again if you don't like what it does, but I don't think you will notice any significant visual difference, but it should definitely speed up XP.

John

eyethoughtso wrote on 1/1/2008, 5:17 PM

Thanks John that's alot of info. I appreciate your time and efforts and all that typing.
Jeff

craftech wrote on 1/1/2008, 6:09 PM

Let us know if it works Jeff.

John

LarryP wrote on 1/2/2008, 3:28 AM

There is a good MS note on memory usage and in particular how to use and interpret perfmon output at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555223

Larry