"B. Smith" <> wrote in message news:...
> "Ian D" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> "Mike D" <> wrote in message
>> news:E550AE0C-F2F4-4FE9-8903-...
>>> Ignore me, fixed, Vista didn't have a pagefile setup at all, it said 0,
>>> why I
>>> don't know!
>>>
>>> "Mike D" wrote:
>>>
>>>> I keep getting messages pop up on my Vista 32bit machine informing me
>>>> to
>>>> close some programs as I have low memory, I'm not running much, I
>>>> increased
>>>> the mem to 4GB and I get the same issue, the eventlog says:
>>>>
>>>> Log Name: System
>>>> Source: Microsoft-Windows-Resource-Exhaustion-Detector
>>>> Date: 13/12/2008 9:39:02 AM
>>>> Event ID: 2004
>>>> Task Category: Resource Exhaustion Diagnosis Events
>>>> Level: Warning
>>>> Keywords: Events related to exhaustion of system commit limit
>>>> (virtual
>>>> memory).
>>>> User: SYSTEM
>>>> Computer: ABC123
>>>> Description:
>>>> Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition. The
>>>> following
>>>> programs consumed the most virtual memory: MediaServer.exe (2404)
>>>> consumed
>>>> 209510400 bytes, and svchost.exe (1216) consumed 108982272 bytes.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone any ideas?
>>
>>
>> You have just provided a practical demonstration of what can
>> happen with no pagefile, for those who say a pagefile is not
>> needed with 4GB of RAM.
>>
>
>
> Speaking of RAM ... I just looked at a Gateway PC with 8 GB of RAM at best
> buy...but it only had a Geforce 6150...and it ran like crap.
> Cheap RAM is being dumped on these systems...yet my 2 GB RAM system would
> smoke them all.
> A Good graphics card , or 2, beats RAM any day.
> Any day!
> Who builds these GD systems ?
> Insane.
> I feel sorry for consumers ( 2 walked away when I started yakking outloud
> about how poor they performed).
> My 2 year old XPS with dual 6800's smoke that ****.
> No wonder people hate Vista.
> Pre-built, low end PC's suck.
>
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