https://wccftech.com/how-to-fix-chia-runtime-error-bad-allocation-on-windows/ > Have you started mining Chia recently and keep getting the pesky bad allocation errors? Well fret not, there is usually a very simple reason why they pop up and we will walk you through all of them. > First, the basics. Each chia plot requires atleast 3390 MiB of RAM and 2 threads each. Notice this is GiB and NOT GB. 3390 GiB translates to 3639 GB of RAM. It also needs 2 threads for every plot and the k=32 plot size (which is the most popular) requires 239 GiB of temporary space (or 257 GB) to plot.