Low on memory WARNING even if I'm not.

This happened to me before and I don't know why. I'm under minecraft minecraft server when he says I'm low on memory However, in my taskbar, it shows there are still 4 GB to be used (probably 3 because of the reserved system). Why it gives me this warning when I am clearly not to run out of memory. http://i.imgur.com/ujDqd9f.PNG

I hit Cancel and shortly after, this message appeared, probably windows shut down some programs (saving memory) as he did in the past: http://i.imgur.com/ZvoozAJ.png

This message refers to non-physical memory virtual memory.

The relevant figure to watch is 'committed '. This is the amount of virtual memory that each process has requested Windows to ensure will be available if needed. The validation limit is the amount of physical memory and the size of pagefile.

You may be able to avoid the following message if shows by increasing the size of the pagefile. If this does not help, you can find which process is / are the cause of the problem by adding the column memory dedicated to the process in the Task Manager tab.

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/preventing-low-memory-problems#1TC=Windows-7

This is an oversimplification. For a more precise explanation, see the section on memory committed in http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx

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