What does a STACK OVERFLOW mean? 1

[jofet]

When i boot up my PC it say i have a  Windoes errror "stack overflow" and recommends that i edit my sys.ini "minSPs" and increase it. What does it mean and what do i do? Thanks

 

[Karl Blessing]

well a stack overflow is when it cant put anything more on memory, you see internally a program may run something rescursivly (calls itself over and over again, adding processes to the Stack) like a stack of cards, everytime, the program calls itself with a new value a card is placed on top, normally they're is an exit condition and the cards start going back down to the place it was called, but sometimes, the stack keeps going up until there is no more memory to handle it, and that causes the overflow portion of it.&nbsp;&nbsp;as far as fixing it, do you possibly know what miniSPs is, well if you cant boot window, type in edit.com, and goto file...open and find the system.ini under C:\Windows and see if you find that line minSPs, and try increasing the number like it said (remeber the old number if you need to change it back) other than that, I dont know much more about a fix. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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