On 03/28/2015 04:39 PM, Mario Valencia wrote: > to reproduce it, i create a small emtpy html document. then i evaluate > the following expression: > > (dotimes (i 100) (browse-url-of-file)) > > This causes emacs to start opening the file using google chrome. In the > task manager, i can see emacs' memory usage go up by about 5 megabytes > each time a tab is opened. When it opens about 30 tabs, emacs is using > 138 megabytes of memory, and it gives the error below. > the translation is something like this: "ShellExecute failed: Storage > space insufficient to process this command" > My harddrive has enough storage space btw. Do you happen to have any shell extensions installed? ShellExecute can run arbitrary third-party code through this extension mechanism.