[ramana]

Hai friends,

greetings

I am working with cad (Intellicad) a drawing software.

some times when i open 2MB file for my required modifications, my system is giving an alert message saying, virtual memmory is low and i am unable to open that file and save it.

what exactly this virtual memmory? Is it related to Hardware or s/w, how to change the virtual memmory what is optimum memmory to set.

thanks & regards

Ramana

[S0ULphIRE]

Virtual memory is free space on you harddrive that the computer uses like RAM. If you want to increase it, go to Control Panel | System | Advanced, click Settings in the “Performance” Section. Then click the "change" setting.
What you SHOULD do tho is upgrade your RAM.

[mikee]

If I were you I would also upgrade ram if you are using cad software

[querry_n]

Ramana,
As the previous posters have said, consider increasing your RAM. When an application's computing does not fit in RAM it then uses hard disk space as a slower alternative for storage and it is called virtual RAM. How much RAM do you have ? In XP you click on Control panel, System, Advanced tab, Performance settings, Advanced tab, and finally virtual memory change.

I run Intellicad and using a custom setting of 760 MB (min) to 1540 (max) produces no complaints while running big files in Intellicad. Your system is different so play with these numbers till you get a satisfactory result.

[Apokalipse]

Originally Posted by ramana

Hai friends,

greetings

I am working with cad (Intellicad) a drawing software.

some times when i open 2MB file for my required modifications, my system is giving an alert message saying, virtual memmory is low and i am unable to open that file and save it.

what exactly this virtual memmory? Is it related to Hardware or s/w, how to change the virtual memmory what is optimum memmory to set.

thanks & regards

Ramana

how much RAM has the computer got?
and how many and what programs are running?