Out of Memory

[joedee]

I am getting cannot open because of low on memory. I have Windows Me, 1.4 gig cpu, 512 ram, 20 gig hard drive. A memory control program shows green and good ram levels. I wonder if a previously opened program is not fully closing. It comes up when I close one (often a game) and try to open another. I have looked in my "running" menu (Ctrl/Alt/Del) and nothing out of the ordinary is open.
What is causing the low memory problem with nothing showing overloaded.
I have the Virtual, etc. set for Windows to manage and over 1 gig free space.
Thanks, Joe

[cody580]

Do you get a stacking errow which means you are useing more memory than you have stack pages (memory not dumping)

go to this page and see what you think
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q149/0/83.asp

cody

[joedee]

Thanks, I'll give it a try and let you know.
Joe

[joedee]

Looks like that got it. Thanks very MUCH!!
What's the upside/downside to increasing the setting from 4 to 8, 16, 24.

Thanks again, Joe

[cody580]

All i can do is give you my theory 9x will not be happy with more than 256m but it works fine with 512m if you dont push it to hard, with games and such, in that case you have to give it a place to dump, that is where you have to increase your stack pages, now lets say you stuck a gig in your machine, and you thought you was going to have one of them, slam bam thank you mam thunder stick son of a guns unless you increased your stack pages all you are going to have is a poor little sick thing that fresses up all the time, so in a word , any thing over 256m you will have to give it a place to dump, and the more memory the more stack pages, now that i have got you thoerly confused this is only my theory and should be taken as so > cody

[joedee]

If I understand you correctly, I should increase the stack dump setting . Right now I have it set it at the minimum recommendation of 4.
You don't mention a downside to increasing the stack allocation, so will MinSPs=24 be okay?
Joe

[AnnMarie]

Hi Joe - You accidentally posted in the WinXP Forum. I'm moving your topic to the Windows Millenium Forum. :)

[cody580]

good thing about a computor if it ant burning it ant broke, so if you increased it to 4 and it runs alright let it be happy, if it dont you can increase it, always make a note of what you done , so you can undo if it dont work cody