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I get the error message “Error allocating RAM from windows” but have > 1GB of RAM installed?

April 26, 2017Error installed message RAM

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I get the error message “Error allocating RAM from windows” but have > 1GB of RAM installed?

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The standard memory test uses the virtual memory system to allocate RAM for testing. When you have a large amount of RAM installed BurnInTest attempts to grab as much as it can for testing. The problem with this is that you only need a small amount of memory fragmentation to stop the memory allocation from working. Windows allocates 2GB of address space for each application and for machines with a large amount of physical RAM, BurnInTest will be trying to grab a large percentage of all the virtual address space. Windows then reports an error for the memory allocation because there is not sequential unfragmented virtual address space available. The more physical RAM you have installed and the longer the burn in period, the more chance you will have of seeing this problem..