Memory overload in X?

[David Boag]

Yesterday, I got an alert while surfing the web and playing a Flash 
player something-or-other, that Explorer was running out of memory, and 
to allocate more memory to that app. Well, I've got a G4 350 AGP , OS 
10.2.3, with 640MB RAM, and I was only running 3 aps: IE 5.2, Page 
Sender (an excellent shareware fax app, BTW, that runs in the 
background with hardly any memory usage), and Meteorologist, again not 
a memory hog. IE quit unexpectedly seconds after the alert.

I didn't think this was an issue in X, as I thought X would 
automatically allocate memory when it had to. Can anyone explain this, 
or tell me what to do to avoid this?

TIA
--
David R. Boag, DDS
spikedds at bellsouth.net