# Free Rapid Memory Very Low

**URL:** <https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/free-rapid-memory-very-low/6086>\
**Category:** Robot Controller\
**Created:** [April 22, 2014, 9:03am UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/free-rapid-memory-very-low/6086 "2014-04-22T09:03:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![2M\_Peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/76d3ee/32.png) [@2M\_Peter](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/u/2M_Peter)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 9:03am UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/free-rapid-memory-very-low/6086/1 "2014-04-22T09:03:40Z")

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Hello,

The is the first post I have put on here, so here goes:

We are working in a car plant in China and are responsible for 100’s of ABB IRC5 robots. We have had some recent problems with a handful of robots that are all carrying out the same process (Roller Hemming). We have had instances where a backup cannot be performed. Upon inspection we believed the problem to be down to the Total used Rapid Memory being 24.7 MB out of a possible 25 MB.

My question to all reading this is this: what actually gets written/stored on the ‘Rapid Memory’. Forgive me if this is an obvious question to some of you? Could somebody please point me in the right direction so that I can at least research this myself. If I can figure out what gets written to the memory, I might be able to prevent the problem from happening.

Many thanks for your time!

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**Author:** ![Anderdrome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@Anderdrome](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/u/Anderdrome)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/free-rapid-memory-very-low/6086/2 "2014-04-24T18:07:14Z")

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by any chance did you update your robotware?

maybe you forgot to remove an older version?