# free up/reallocating RAM?

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**Created:** [November 23, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/free-up-reallocating-ram/265583 "2012-11-23T19:19:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/free-up-reallocating-ram/265583/6 "2012-11-25T20:40:27Z")

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> [@cheektowaga residents, help!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cheektowaga-residents-help/50992/25):
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> Well I know this is a partial ram issue now. I was compiling a super fine equidistant tool path this evening for a tooling mold and the program tossed me some allocation errors. So for shits and giggles I went in and bumped my virtual memory allocation from 3.5gb to 10gb and I was able to compute the tool path and compile the Gcode
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> I think I definitely want to try going back to 64 bit. My question is if I am running these programs through a virtual machine(because theyre meant for 32bit OS), will the virtual machine still limit me to only 4gb ram access or is that limit not applicable in this setup? I’ve never used anything through a vm before so it’s all new to me.

Yeah, the 32-bit guest OS will still only see 4GB. Your only option is to go full blown 64-bit. Also, you cannot use a 64-bit guest on a 32-bit host.

Or, try to remove as much stuff as possible from running when you boot the machine up to free up every MB of memory you can using the methods I mentioned above.

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