out of memory
No space left
Out of memory describes a computer system that has exhausted its available working memory and cannot complete a requested operation.
Programs crash, freeze, or display error messages when they run out of memory: The browser kept going out of memory with too many tabs open.
The phrase sometimes extends figuratively to mental overload: I'm out of memory after that meeting.
- crashSudden violent impact
- blue screenFatal system error display
- RAMTemporary data storage hardware
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- stack overflowExceeded call depth
heap · buffer · stack · allocation · leak · garbage collection · shortage · exhausted · freeze · swap · storage · system · error · fatal · dump · bytes · megabytes · bloat
- memory managementbuffer, free, heap, stack, allocation
- software bugsbug, error, glitch, defect, fault
- system errorsconnection error, fatal error, timeout error, system crash, blue screen
- system failuressystem crash, outage, server crash, fatal error, blue screen
- system crashescrash report, crash log, BSOD, kernel panic, blue screen
- memory errorsmisattribution, confabulation, source confusion, paramnesia, suggestibility