[FrayAdjacent911]

If you get the message frequently, you would benefit from adding more RAM to your system. 256MB is the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM I would attempt to run just about any operating system on nowadays.

Your system performance will increase noticeably with more RAM given your situation, more than likely. It wouldn't cost too much to double your RAM nowadays.


If you pick up a new machine over the holidays, get yourself at least 512MB of RAM. I'd personally go for at least 1GB, but that's me. How useful it will be depends greatly on what OS, and what software you're running, and how much of it you run simultaneously.