loadlibrary fail with error 8

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Hi,

I have a program that duplicates a dll and loads it multiple times.

in the 7th loadlibrary command the operation failed with the failure - "not enough storage" (error code 8)

i am loading 4 dll's, then release them (freelibrary) and load them again

I have win 7 with 8 GB of memory and working in VS2008 writing in c/c++

when i look at the task manager i don't see anything unusual may be i am not looking in the right place, the memory usage of the application doesn't exceed 1,300,000 KB

if i run the app with 6 loadlibary commands it works ok.

Could It be a problem in the dll?

I thought my PC is rather strong and it should be able to stand in memory demands.

I am trying to solve this problem for 3 days.

hope someone can help me

thanks

dj4400

Posted 6-May-13 8:15am

dj4400

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-May-13 15:43pm

It could be. I would say, not enough information to solve the problem.
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merano · Answer 1 · 2013-05-06T12:50:00

"I have a program that duplicates a dll and loads it multiple times." What ???

Do you copy the DLL and then call LoadLibrary ?

The same dll would not be loaded several times by the same Process.

MSDN says:
"For each DLL that has not already been called, the system calls the DLL's entry-point function.
This call is made in the context of the thread that caused the process address space to change,
such as the primary thread of the process or the thread that called LoadLibrary.
...
Threads in DllMain hold the loader lock so no additional DLLs can be dynamically loaded or initialized."

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682583.aspx

If the Problem occurs after loading the same DLL several times with LoadLibrary() something
must go wrong inside your DLL.

What does the DLL do and why are you loading it several times ?

LaxmikantYadav · Answer 2 · 2013-05-06T19:58:00

Solution 2

This might help you -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/507853/system-error-code-8-not-enough-storage-is-available-to-process-this-command[^]

Posted 6-May-13 19:58pm

LaxmikantYadav

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dj4400 7-May-13 15:53pm

I opened LaxmikantYadav link but it talks about delphi and XP. i am working on win 7 and c++ so i don't think their solution is relevant.
The third solution they offered talked about atom table - i don't know if it exists in c++.

dj4400 7-May-13 15:56pm

Is there a way to monitor the memory shortage - may be i am not looking on the right place in the task manager - i looked at the memory usage and the peak memory usage and saw only results mentioned above.

Also, is there a way to see if i am excessively using some other resources such as the DC they mentioned in the link

thanks