Ever since I installed the 5584 upgrade, I’ve been getting this message: “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.â€
The last time I did an update, I got the same thing and someone advised me to go into Windows XP’s control panel under system-advanced-virtual memory and under custom size change the initial size to 1536. I did that, and my problem stopped. Well, my size is the same under 5584, but now that message is returning. Is there some additional setting I need to tinker with?
Also, in Parallels, my prefs for memory are set to adjust memory limit automatically. The slider is at 704. The “enable virtual memory preallocation†is not checked. These must have been the defaults, because I’ve never altered them.
I’m on Tiger, 10.4.11 with all updates current, and my VM is Windows XP Professional, running on my hard drive. (Not boot camp.) I have 3 GB of RAM, and all I do with Windows is run Explorer and one proprietary work program that won’t run under Mac.
Does 5584 require something different now? Do I also have to go into some setting and change a paging file number?
(By the way, prior to the installation I had done rigorous, routine maintenance operations, including running the compressor, which worked fine. Only then did I install the update after uninstalling the previous Parallels version.)
Last edited: Mar 14, 2008