Last night I put Parallels to sleep as I always have done having worked flawlessly all day. This morning I launched it but when starting up it came up with an error message saying it was having trouble allocating memory and to restart the application. This I did and my VM had lost its 'saved' position and rebooted from scratch but again came up with the same error message. This happned 3 times before I tried rebooting my Mac. Parallels then rebooted fine. Is this a commoon problem? I lost all my saved work which is not fun. Any ideas what could have caused it? Cheers. Robin
sounds to me like OSX was having a memory allocation issue or a process running under OSX had not released its memory usage cleanly when it was shut down.Nothing to panic about. You can check next time this happens by using the activity monitor is osx to see which application is chewing all the memory.
I've seen this problem in the betas, but not since GA. As an aside, saving work whenever I've done enough that I don't want to do it over is my policy and one I recommend. This means saving work in applications, and backing up my entire machine. There are two kinds of computers: Those that have failed, and those that will. While the likelihood of a hard disk crash is lower than that of an OS crash, both have happened to me many times. I no longer lose much when these things happen. I don't walk away from a machine without saving whatever I'm working on.
