System Low on Memory

I've tried searching for this subject and could fin it, so I
hope it isn't there. I keep getting the message that the System is
low on memory and I need to close applications to free up memory. I
have 2 GB of RAM, and I would think that would be enough to run
Dreamweaver. I have shut all programs down, and I will still get
this message. There are also times that this is the first and only
program I have opened up after a restart, and I will still get this
message. Does anyone have any help for me? Here are some of my
system specs:
AMD 64 4400+ Dual Core
ASUS A8V motherboard
ATI X800 AIW Video card
500 GB SATA hard drive
Running Windows Vista (had this problem with XP also)

There was something posted by an Adobe person awhile back
that said it might
have to do with your Virtual Memory settings. Let the O/S
control it, don't
customize the settings.
You could search Adobe to get all the details.
"Buzby" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:evojob$6bn$[email protected]..
> samscats wrote:
>
>> I've tried searching for this subject and could fin
it, so I hope it
>> isn't there. I keep getting the message that the
System is low on
>> memory and I need to close applications to free up
memory. I have 2
>> GB of RAM, and I would think that would be enough to
run Dreamweaver.
>> I have shut all programs down, and I will still get
this message.
>> There are also times that this is the first and only
program I have
>> opened up after a restart, and I will still get this
message. Does
>> anyone have any help for me? Here are some of my
system specs: AMD
>> 64 4400+ Dual Core ASUS A8V motherboard
>> ATI X800 AIW Video card
>> 500 GB SATA hard drive
>> Running Windows Vista (had this problem with XP
also)
>
> Sounds like you've got 'memory leak'
>
> I had a similar problem running an older version of
MailWasher in the
> background which gobbled up all the available resources
>
> --
> Buzby
> There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot

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joe, did the procedure solve the low memo issue?
"joe" <[email protected]> escreveu na mensagem
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> Thanks Dooza,
> It was showing an adobe error page a while ago.
> Seems fine :-)
> joe
> "Dooza" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:fijriq$8nb$[email protected]..
>> joe wrote:
>>> Is the link working for anyone?
>>>
>>> "joe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:fijdgu$ntl$[email protected]..
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I keep getting a "low on memory" error
running DW.
>>>> I have 2G of ram and there should be no
problem.
>>>> I have found a couple of Adobe technotes but
the pages will not load:
>>>>
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?loc=en_us&term=system+low+on+memory
>>>>
>>>> Anyone help?
>>>> thanks
>>>
>>
>> Yep it worked for me, showed me a list of results,
here is the top page
>> from the search results:
>>
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb400957
>>
>> Steve
>

Error message "Your system is low on memory"

I just installed Dreamweaver 8.0.2 and I occasionly the error
message "Your system is low on memory" appears. I only use
Dreamweaver for editing php and simple htm files. I have 2 gig of
RAM and Windows Task Manager says I have 1 gig free. This question
has been asked twice before in this forum over the past 2 years and
there has been no work around given. I have XP service pack 2 and
it has automatic updates turned on. Any suggestions?

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:13:33 +0000 (UTC), "Richard9908"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Thanks for the two quick replys!
>
> David, I just disabled the Dreamweaver start-up screen
and restarted
>Dreamweaver so hopefully the error message will not pop
up again. It seems to
>pop up every one or two days. I'll let you know what
happens.
>
> Kat, I looked under the Processes tab of the Windows
Task Manager but I
>didn't do this until I restarted Dreamweaver so I'll
probably have to wait
>until the error message is displayed again (hopefully it
won't). My question
>is since I still have 1 gig out of 2 gig RAM free does it
really matter who is
>using the 1 gig?
>
> Thanks! Rich
Windows used to not do well with a lot of RAM, but I haven't
looked
into that for a couple of years.

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3GB should be plenty to run Contribute and Outlook, or Acrobat and Bridge.
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Thanks for the reply.
Yes I have tried that, but to no avail. The crazy thing is that it only really happens after I've been working in Contribute for a while. Sometimes an hour or more. Then it just starts doing this.
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I am going to purchase an HP Z820 sometime in the near future. I do NOT want to build my own machine; I have just enough technical knowledge to be dangerous, as they say, and want one-stop shopping for technical support if my machine develops problems.
While I will use this machine for a variety of applications, my main concern is to optimize it for Premiere Pro. Based on Harm Millaard’s (who to my untutored eye seems to be one of the most prolific, knowledgeable, and helpful individuals in this forum) “Guidelines for Disc Usage” of two years ago, I plan to install a 300GB SSD for my boot drive, and to construct a RAID 5 array out of the remaining drives. (The Z820 does not support RAID 3.) The array drives will be either five (5) more 300GB SSD’s, or four (4) 600GB 15,000 RPM SAS HDD’s.
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Pardon me for jumping in. (I realize the question is to Harm.)
I am going to purchase an HP Z820 sometime in the near future.
Congrats, this is a great system.
... I plan to install a 300GB SSD for my boot drive, and to construct a RAID 5 array out of the remaining drives.
The 300GB SSD - is that an HP model? If so please reconsider: it's an older Intel SSD X25-M series that is slow, and runs at SATA 3G speeds (not 6G), which doesn't do the Z820 justice. Intel 520 series has been tested (by yours truly among others) and can be used in the Z820.
The array drives will be either five (5) more 300GB SSD’s, or four (4) 600GB 15,000 RPM SAS HDD’s.
As Harm will probably tell you: unless you also run a database server on that system, there is no advantage to 10K, 15Krpm or even SSD drives for video purposes, with the exception of possible reliability (enterprise class 10-15K drives and SSDs are tested much more extensively than desktop and nearline drives) and throughput in case of SSDs if, for instance, your workflow demands extreme bandwidth (e.g. recording of uncompressed 4K 12-bit RGB signal).
Assume for the sake of argument that cost is not a factor, and that the 1.2TB storage offered by the 5 SSD drives in RAID 5 (vs. the 1.8TB offered by the 4 SAS drives) is perfectly adequate, which would you choose? And why?
Hypothetically, I'd choose SSDs: higher reliability, responsiveness, performance, lower power consumption. I'd do research though to ensure they'd keep up with a lot of write I/Os thrown at them.
In reality, I'd choose neither, for reasons I mentioned above. 7200rpm nearline drives have sufficient performance for the purpose, and the capacity is much higher per dollar.
I COULD get 64MB, but it would have to be registered RAM, which I understand slows things down.
Not necessarily. The 2% difference between ECC and non-ECC memory (negligible as it is) is not at play here because Z820 does not support non-ECC memory. Registered or not, it has to be ECC, and registered memory is not necessarily slower than unbuffered. Even if it was, the 2% difference is unlikely to make any perceptable dent in performance given that no editing system runs its memory at 100% bandwidth at all times. Then again, if cost is not a factor, you could always swap unbuffered for registered later on.
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HTH.

How to resolve the error " low paging memory"

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Hi,
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Computer is low on memory even though I have 100GB available

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Hi christene,
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Dreamweaver "low on memory" error (yes, again)

Hi all,
I'd like to re-open discussion on a problem that's been
highlighted on these forums a couple of times already:
Here...
...and
here...
...and
here.
...but as yet, no solution.
I have a new Dell Inspiron 9400 E1705 with 2GB of RAM running
Dreamweaver v8.0.2 that throws the error "Your system is low on
memory" (as shown in those other posts) when clearly I have a stack
of free memory.
I can make this error occur even when I'm running no other
apps. No other application gives me memory errors, including
Fireworks when it's stacked to the gills with big PNGs. Just
Dreamweaver, and, it seems, almost always when working on CSS
documents.
The other threads have been relatively exhaustive on what's
occurring, so I need not repeat much of it, but this error message
is annoying the hell out of me. After reading the other posts, I'm
fairly convinced this is a Dreamweaver bug.
What do you think?
I'd like not to get the standard plethora of "IS YOUR VIRUS
SOFTWARE DOING REALTIME PROTECTION" and "HAVE YOU GOT LOTS OF OTHER
THINGS OPEN" etc -- I've been using Dreamweaver for years and years
and I'm not a n00b, so I wouldn't be posting here if I didn't think
this was something bigger than just my PC.
I suspect, from reading the other threads, that there might
be a problem related to working on CSS files (particularly large
ones) combined with perhaps 2GB of RAM (because this .problem never
happened on my much lower-specced previous machine).
Would love to hear your thoughts, preferably constructive,
though humorous wouldn't go astray... ;-)
Cheers!

No answers but same problem... DW8, Dell Dimension 3100 with
2GB ram. I get
the same error, but my css files are not particularly long
nor my pages
large. Error usually seems to occur when uploading files.
Check of task
manager shows plenty of ram available.
Does not occur on my Compaq laptop with 1MB RAM running
MX2004, same sites.
Michael Hager
www.cmhager.com
Does not occur on my lapt
"septicman_NZ" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to re-open discussion on a problem that's been
highlighted on
> these
> forums a couple of times already:
>
>
>
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=12&catid=18
> 9&threadid=1087274
>
>
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=12&catid=18
> 9&threadid=820046
>
>
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=12&catid=18
> 9&threadid=1145778
>
> ...but as yet, no solution.
>
> I have a new Dell Inspiron 9400 E1705 with 2GB of RAM
running Dreamweaver
> v8.0.2 that throws the error "Your system is low on
memory" (as shown in
> those
> other posts) when clearly I have a stack of free memory.
>
> I can make this error occur even when I'm running no
other apps. No other
> application gives me memory errors, including Fireworks
when it's stacked
> to
> the gills with big PNGs. Just Dreamweaver, and, it
seems, almost always
> when
> working on CSS documents.
>
> The other threads have been relatively exhaustive on
what's occurring, so
> I
> need not repeat much of it, but this error message is
annoying the hell
> out of
> me. After reading the other posts, I'm fairly convinced
this is a
> Dreamweaver
> bug.
>
> What do you think?
>
> I'd like not to get the standard plethora of "IS YOUR
VIRUS SOFTWARE DOING
> REALTIME PROTECTION" and "HAVE YOU GOT LOTS OF OTHER
THINGS OPEN" etc --
> I've
> been using Dreamweaver for years and years and I'm not a
n00b, so I
> wouldn't be
> posting here if I didn't think this was something bigger
than just my PC.
>
> I suspect, from reading the other threads, that there
might be a problem
> related to working on CSS files (particularly large
ones) combined with
> perhaps
> 2GB of RAM (because this .problem never happened on my
much lower-specced
> previous machine).
>
> Would love to hear your thoughts, preferably
constructive, though humorous
> wouldn't go astray... ;-)
>
> Cheers!
>

Qosmio X300 - Low on memory error message

Out of the blue I am getting memory problems with my X300. I have changed the virtual memory and paging size to various settings but still getting the following message and my computer freezes.
"Your computer is low on memory close all applications".
I have 4GB RAM only thing I can think of is the memory has been unseated when I have been carting my laptop on holidays?
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi christene,
Are the whole 4GB RAM recognized in BIOS properly?
Theoretically it could be also a software issue of Windows. Maybe you have a virus on it and nobody knows how much programs you are start.
Have you tried a system restore to an earlier point?

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occurs even if the web application is the only window open.
My operating system is Windows 7.

Hello,
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Try OWA and see if we can send/receive email properly. If OWA works fine, I suggest we post this question to Windows 7 Forum below:
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Callback if low on memory

Hello,
I am developing an application which caches quite a lot
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that is called if the machine is low on memory. In this
method I could then deltete references to the cached
objects and run the garbage collector. I think this might
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I looked in the System and the Runtime classes but didn't
find anything.
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Stefan

This is exactly what the reference api is for. Check
out the package java.lang.ref & the associated
articles.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/ref/p
ckage-summary.html
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ALT/Ref
bj/
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2002/jw-0104-j
va101.html
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

stropical wrote:
When you say increase the physical memory what I have to do? Thanks
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http://www.gilsmethod.com/how_to_optimize_windows_vista_swap_file

When in firefox this comes up-your computer is low in memory. Save your files and close these programs.

The available RAM memory on our computer no problem. And we have over 50 gigs of hard drive memory. We have also cleared off history files and open programs. But when my wife plays games on facebook, farmville and the new one just out, a pop up says 'your computer is low on memory. Save your files and close these programs- Fire fox. Our internet security is fully functional and a complete diagnostic has revealed no malware, viruses, trojans, on our system.

Hello,
According to the error message, it should be a Windows issue.
Try OWA and see if we can send/receive email properly. If OWA works fine, I suggest we post this question to Windows 7 Forum below:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/w7itpro
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TechNet Community Support

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