what are stack packages?

[Warthog]

Just got a BSOD.

It said that there were no spare stack packages and something about the number five. I have noticed some slow down with my comp recently (music skipping, mouse jerking). NEVER, EVER, EVER had these probs before. Figured I should defrag or something.

Specs:
Dell 800mhz PIII
128mb PC133 RAM
64mb Geforce2 GTS

Any ideas?

*edit*

Forget that. I'm now noticing A LOT of slow down. This is my SECOND Dell comp in one year. The first had memory conflicts - 128 stick and 64 stick didn't get along. The EXACT same symptoms of that problem have come back to haunt me: mp3 player constantly skips on the littlest task and other unnecessary slow downs. Keep in mind that I have noticed this for several days. It has just gotten worse. In other words, I have restarted.

I bought this comp in August. I am starting to not like Dell...ughhh...
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Warthog

[This message has been edited by Warthog (edited 11-18-2000).]

[Richard_Cranium72]

The first one I have listed was #48 @ MacroSwamp. The others below are what I found first, they may have relevance as stack problems seem to be associated with many different parameters.

There Are No Spare Stack Pages-->> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q149/0/83.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q84/3/00.ASP


This error can occur if network cards, laboratory measurement instruments, and other devices are in use. They may generate many hardware interrupts, thus exhausting the MS-DOS stack resources-->> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q41/0/24.ASP

The addition of the STACKS command line causes MS-DOS to reserve space for hardware interrupt handling (rather than an application's stack). In general, the default setting gives you more free memory; however, there are situations when the hardware interrupt routines require more space. On IBM machines, STACKS=0,0 is the default; on all other machines, STACKS=9,128 is the default.

One such situation is when you are running SMARTDrive (SMARTDRV.EXE) version 4.0 with certain network cards. Windows Setup should modify the CONFIG.SYS file accordingly when Windows is installed if it detects a known problem configuration. -->> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q82/3/18.ASP

DrVette

[Warthog]

You guys are great! Doc, your first link said almost exactly what Steve said http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif. Thanks for taking the time to search.

Thanks again, you both!
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I'll give an update on performance issues when I try it.

Warthog

[This message has been edited by Warthog (edited 11-18-2000).]

[Steve R Jones]

This will fix the stack problem but shouldn't be related to any slowdowns:

Do Start > Run > SYSTEM.INI >OK
This will start an editor for System.ini

Scroll down until you find the [386enh] section.
Look for a entry
MinSPs=5

You may not find one because it is default.

Regardless,either replace the line above or add a line that looks like
MinSPs=8

It can go anywhere in the [386enh] section

Go file, select save and reboot