Vista Tutorial - Too Many Memory Hard Errors

While I'm running some programs which need much memory, the Resource Monitor
shows that there's many memory hard errors, and this cause my hard disk very
busy and I can do nothing for quite a long time until the hard disk calm
down. The hard disk then was busy reading the pagefile. I don't know how to
handle this, and therefore, I cannot use VMware. However, VPC has no such
problem. My physical memory usage seldom goes over 50%, why does it use
pagefile so much?

Hi Tony,

Hard memory errors are problems in the manipulation of the virtual or
physical memory, not the hard drive itself. While some physical memory is
reserved for the system processes, excessive paging such as you describe can
indicate an insufficient amount of installed memory for the programs you are
running, or that the programs in use are set to allocate a large number of
pages while in use.

The first thing I would do is run the memory diagnostic tool to see if there
is a hardware issue with the physically installed ram. Second, check with
the software vendors as to the recommended amount of memory to have
installed on the system to run the program effectively.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Tony" <tonybuaa@live.com> wrote in message
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> While I'm running some programs which need much memory, the Resource
> Monitor shows that there's many memory hard errors, and this cause my hard
> disk very busy and I can do nothing for quite a long time until the hard
> disk calm down. The hard disk then was busy reading the pagefile. I don't
> know how to handle this, and therefore, I cannot use VMware. However, VPC
> has no such problem. My physical memory usage seldom goes over 50%, why
> does it use pagefile so much?