Exporting to tape and capturing

I notice that premiere pro cs4 when i am capturing 2 hours video or exporting to tape, freeze often.
i open my task manager and i saw that memory is always increasing (consuming 3,4 gb, when exporting 1 hour and ten minutes) so i have only 2 gb of ram, when it passes the limit, it stop responding.
if it is a short clip and dont pass the 2 gb limit, it´s ok. I dont know where is the problem, in PP CS3 no problem...
I forgot...
My system is Core duo e 8200
2 hard drives 7.200 rpm
windows xp 32 bit
thanks

Actually, I think that it might be the other way around. We understand your post, but I do not think that you understand Harm's. What he has provided are several articles on troubleshooting, that will either fix your situation, or will rule out certain things as the likely causes. At the bottom of the article linked to, you have a list of questions. It is the answers to these, plus what you tried from the troubleshooting guides, and the results, that will help us understand your problem better. It's the "problem," and not the post, that we need an understanding of.
With 2GB of RAM, and you observing a "ceiling" on RAM use, the first thing that I'd do would be to go to 4GB. RAM is cheap. You will want to match your existing RAM in every aspect, to the new RAM. If this is not possible, because of availability, or how your MoBo's memory slots are configured, then just go with 4GB of new RAM. You will not quite be able to use 100% of that 4GB, but enough that it could make a difference.
Good luck, and please report back with the answers to the 16 questions, plus what helped, or did not help, from the troubleshooting articles.
Hunt

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Capture Format DV
Video Rendering and Playback: Mercury Playback Engine Software only
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DV NTSC
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report dropped frames (not checked)
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