VIRTUALMEMORY on 3.10.0

[got]

Win11 21H2 / DesktopInfo 3.10.0

On my system VIRTUALMEMORY on DI 3.10.0 produces some strange output:

3.10.0:
VIRTUALMEMORY= interval:5, chart:bar max:100 series1:3 threshold:80,display:%1[3.1b]B / %2[3.1b]B (%3% used)
Result:
Virtual Memory 4,2GiB / 128,0TiB (0% used)

2.11.0:
Line:
VIRTUALMEMORY= interval:5, chart:bar2 scale:linear max:100 series1:3 threshold:75, row-text:Virtual Memory:, display:%1[3.1b]B / %2[3.1b]B : %3% used
Result:
Virtual Memory 117,7MB / 2,0GiB : 5% used

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[Glenn]

128TB seems excessive. I’ll look into that. The 2GB thing on version 2 is due to the 32 bit application trying to read the big numbers. You’ll notice the 32 bit version of version 3 shows 2GB also.

[Glenn]

According to what I’ve read, this is the expected result. It is reporting some kind of theoretical upper limit of virtual memory available to the process irrespective of physical ram and/or swap space.

Official MS Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/sysinfoapi/nf-sysinfoapi-globalmemorystatusex

Some Random Programmer Thoughts: https://groups.google.com/g/microsoft.public.vc.mfc/c/i7UzUJOYziE

It’s interesting academically but not very useful. Those 3 items, PHYSICALRAM, VIRTUALMEMORY and PAGEFILE, should probably be merged so we can better use the numbers.

[got]

I have removed VIRTUALMEMORY and PAGEFILE removed from my INI.

I opened Systeminfo.exe and it shows a more reasonable value on virtual memory:
Total virtual memory: 36.4 GB
Available virtual memory: 22,3 GB
So there must be a way to get proper data on virtual memory.

Having Systeminfo.exe open, I noticed a difference in values of PAGEFILE shown by Desktop Info and Systeminfo:
Desktop info: 14GB out of 36GB 38% used
System info: Size of Pasgefile: 4,75 GB

[Glenn]

msinfo shows a Total Virtual Memory figure that seems to equate to the Page File in Desktop Info.

• This reply was modified 9 months ago by Glenn.

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