"not enough memory" to send a new message (Outlook Express)

[jbclem]

I'm using Win2000 sp3, OE 5.0. Several times when I've tried to send a new
message, or reply to on in a newsgroup, I get the error message saying that
there is "not enough memory" to open the new message. Rebooting resolves
this problem, but I also have plenty of memory available (512mb) when it
occurs...I had closed all other programs, checked in Task Manager and found
no memory shortage.

Can someone help me with this problem, tell me what the error message really
means, how to monitor this "not enough memory" situation.

Thanks, John


ps...at the same time this way happening I found that I couldn't drag and
drop files, for copying purposes, from one folder to the other. I would
pick up the first file(left click and hold) and when I tried to drag it
nothing would happen, nothing was being dragged. There may be a connection
between these two problems, but I don't think it's a memory issue, at least
the memory RAM that I'm familiar with.

 

[SaltPeter]

See below...

I'm using Win2000 sp3, OE 5.0. Several times when I've tried to send a new
message, or reply to on in a newsgroup, I get the error message saying that
there is "not enough memory" to open the new message. Rebooting resolves
this problem, but I also have plenty of memory available (512mb) when it
occurs...I had closed all other programs, checked in Task Manager and found
no memory shortage.

Can someone help me with this problem, tell me what the error message really
means, how to monitor this "not enough memory" situation.

Thanks, John


ps...at the same time this way happening I found that I couldn't drag and
drop files, for copying purposes, from one folder to the other. I would
pick up the first file(left click and hold) and when I tried to drag it
nothing would happen, nothing was being dragged. There may be a connection
between these two problems, but I don't think it's a memory issue, at least
the memory RAM that I'm familiar with.

"not enough memory" messages are not a hardware problem, its not a problem
with the amount of memory installed on the system. The operating system
relies on a Heap and a Stack to distribute and manage memory resources
(handles). Should an application reserve or allocate a section of memory but
fail to "free" the resource when done, a memory leak occurs. That portion of
memory becomes lost until a reboot. If this loss occurs repeatedly,
eventually no resources will be available to allocate. Hence, the out of mem
message.

This is often caused by incompatible or corrupted software, incompatible
drivers, etc... In this case, i suspect issues between your OS and the
anti-virus utility.

 

[jbclem]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll follow that direction. Do you know if there
is a way to monitor programs for memory leakage, is there any software that
measures it, any indicator that I can watch?

I don't think my NAV 2003 was working at the time but I'll be watching next
time I run it.

John

 

[SaltPeter]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll follow that direction. Do you know if there
is a way to monitor programs for memory leakage, is there any software that
measures it, any indicator that I can watch?

I don't think my NAV 2003 was working at the time but I'll be watching next
time I run it.

John

There are a few tools that will definitely help in your search for a
solution at www.sysinternals.com. Try FileMon and consider viewing the
following webcast from MS on how to use the system performance monitor to
detect memory leaks:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/servicedesks/webcasts/
so_projects%2Fso2%2Fsoblurb2.asp