Memory errors on 2011 mac pro

I am getting a lot of "memory" errors lately. I thought it was mostly limited to my 2004 Microsoft office suite – mostly Entourage – (yeah, I know, but my company hates to spend money on anything let alone upgrades to the current decade) running on my brand new Mac Pro with a ton of memory.
Today, though, I got a "not enough memory/cannot save" error in my newly upgraded FlexiPro 8.5 software. This error message is new.
Add it to the Entourage and Powerpoint problems, the fact that Adobe CS2 has its own issues, and it becomes an incredibly frustrating way to work.
Yesterday, I ran Disk Utility and it told me to startup from the installation disk and then repair. I repaired my hard drive with Disk Utility, started up from the system installation disk. It claimed to have repaired the problem it was having then. But... I am not getting any relief from the seemingly random error messages today.
2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Zeon
3 GB 1066 MHz DDR3
1TB hard drive
OS 10.6.7
Anyone???

Well, 3GB of memory is almost enough to boot and run a program, but other than that, anemia and starvation.
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Westmere-MemoryBandwidth
Mac Pro Memory 1333
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Reading system memory usage
As for errors, you are talking about parity or other errors, System Profile: Memory, then run AHT and Rember.
Depending on what you do and run, even 6-8GB RAM should be absolutely minimum, with 16-32GB, and for CS 5.x 24GB.
Older applications one problem is they have to emulate PowerPC code via Rosetta which eats up 2GB or more of overhead. Throw in Safari which is a memory hog and some others.
Take a look at /var/vm and the pageouts and swap files from Activity Monitor, though having zero pageouts or low is not a pure indication of having 'enough' for performance.

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yes,
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