Err Msg: Not Enough Storage to Start Process
Article ID: 103119
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
This article was previously published under Q103119
SYMPTOMS
You may receive one of the following error messages when you try to
start an application:
Not enough storage to start process.
Error #0008
CAUSE
These errors indicate you have run out of paging file space. The less
RAM a system has, the more likely this is to happen.
RESOLUTION
To correct this problem, do one of the following:
- Make more RAM available for the system, which allows for more paging
file space (non-paged memory).
-or-
- Use Performance Monitor to discover which application(s) are using
non-paged memory in larger amounts and run them more judiciously.
MORE INFORMATION
Non-paged memory is memory that cannot be swapped out to disk.
Applications can tell Windows NT how much of themselves can be placed
in the non-paged pool. There is a limit to the amount of objects a
system can have in non-paged memory at any time.
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