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On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, BinaryBillTheSailor@Sea++.com wrote:
>>Recently I have had the following Windows bluescreen error
>>several times.
>>
>>"There are no spare stack pages. It may be necessary to increase the
>>setting "MinSPs" in SYSTEM.INI to prevent possible stacks faults. There
>>are currently 5 SPs allocated."
>>
>>First time I got this message I rushed to SYSTEM.INI to increase the
>>value of MinSPs, but there was no reference to SPs, not of any kind. The
>>Windows 95 resource kit makes no reference to it either.
>>
>>So I took a chance, and inserted "MinSPs=6" under [386Enh]. It didn't
>>work. The original message was repeated. Can anyone help bale me out?
>
>Did you by some chance actually have those quote marks around the
>line? It should appear exactly like the example below:

No, of course not. I suppose had I quoted "[386Enh]", my meaning would
have been obvious.

>[386Enh]
>MinSPs=8

That is precisely what I tried. Except I set it to 6, as I didn't know
what overhead was involved in setting more. But if my system  seems to
use odd numbers, perhaps setting to 7 might help.

>Try that and let us know what happens. The fact that you are getting a
>messge that 5 are allocated is a little strange. Usually spare stack
>pages are allocated in even numbers. I've never seen 5 allocated
>before. Maybe you should search the entire System.ini file in case
>there is another duplicate entry somewhere further down in the file or
>something.

There is no other reference. I searched the entire file for "SP". The
closest I could find was:

        [386Enh]
        32BitSP=887

which looks unrelated, but about whose function I am also clueless.

I will try setting MinSPs=8, and give it a while to see if I get an
improvement. Thanks.

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Barry Smith
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