# Error message: Memory error. Tips?

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/error-message-memory-error-tips/11527>\
**Category:** Builder\
**Created:** [March 16, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/error-message-memory-error-tips/11527 "2020-03-16T15:55:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![nsurdel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@nsurdel](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/nsurdel)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/error-message-memory-error-tips/11527/1 "2020-03-16T15:55:00Z")

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I keep getting this error when trying to run my experiment. Any recommendations on decreasing the memory leak?

I am using the newest version of psychopy with the V2020.1.3 runner.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![nsurdel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@nsurdel](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/nsurdel)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/error-message-memory-error-tips/11527/2 "2020-03-16T23:12:30Z")

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I figured it out.

One of my text components was too large (size 50 font).  
Reducing it fixed the problem