Out of memory? I don't think so...

[DarCnuS]

About every 5th or so time I load WinAmp, it tells me there isn't enough memory to play files (*any* files, not just mp3).

It only happens on occasion, but we all hate rebooting http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif It has nothing to do with RAM, since it sometimes happens even when the first program I load after a fresh start is WinAmp, and it works fine then after rebooting.

I have a P233MMX, 32MB RAM and _plenty_ of room for my swapfile. I'm running Win981E, which is automagically handling my VMemory.

Thanks for any help you might be able to offer.
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[Olivier]

> It has nothing to do with RAM, since ...

OK, but 32 MB is still too few, and swapfile will not replace true RAM.

It is not especially Winamp that causes the problem, but other threads running on your machine that can allocate RAM for them-self. e.g. on my computer (K6-233 w/ 128MB RAM):
Allocated memory (code+data)
- vshwin32.exe : about 5MB allocated
- explorer : more than 11 MB
- outlook : more than 30 MB
- winamp : more than 10 MB

You see, nowadays, 32 MB is nothing. I advice you to buy some more RAM... and to fix, once and for all, the swap file (Vmem) to 2x your RAM. Beyond 2x, it's no more profitable (BTW, that's, for the rest, technically adviced in installation guides of Linux distribution. It's the same for Win).