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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.

-or-

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.

Additional query words: prodnt non-paged pool

Keywords: kbother KB103119

Microsoft KB Archive/103119

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