[DUG] D2006/Rave/Memory

[Paul A Norman]

Dear John,

I've been using 500Mb ram for two and half years now, and all has been fine
uintil the last couple of auto-updates from MS for Xp it seems. Now for some
reason I don't seem to be able to easily do many memory intensive things
that I have done for ages.

Other friends commenting the same.

Paul


On 05/07/06, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>
>  I think I have finally proved my memory woes are caused by BDS - I just
> had the PC running slow, according to sysinternals System Information it was
> using 955MB of ram (system memory is 768MB hence everything started
> crawling), on closing BDS it immediately dropped to 355MB.  I had my big
> project open (with RvSystem) but first I closed it and opened a small
> project - it didn't free up any memory, but closing BDS did.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Otherwise I think its off to the shop to upgrade memory to 1GB (maximum
> this system takes). Dunno if that will fix it tho!
>
>
> John
>
>  -----Original Message-----
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> *On Behalf Of *John Bird
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:34 a.m.
> *To:* 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'; delphi at delphi.org.nz
> *Subject:* [DUG] D2006/Rave/Memory
>
>   I am having frequent instances of my PC running out of memory and coming
> up with messages about "Windows has run out of virtual memory and is
> increasing the page file size"  The hard disk goes crazy, the pc slows to a
> crawl and usually the Windows session goes cuckoo after that, even exiting
> programs to lessen memory use can take forever, and usually the best is to
> reboot.  I have tried to narrow it down - Firefox with lots of tabs? well I
> tried Opera instead and IE7.
>
> I have no proof but my best guess so far is BDS 2006 with a project open
> using Rave Reports - it only started happening after I used Rave in a few
> projects.  Projects without it I think are be OK.  I am only using the
> RvSystem component for code based reports, although it is quite large - it
> adds some 800K to the program.  Rebuild such a project a few times over
> a few hours, and it seems the system runs out of memory.  This is without
> running the Rave printing at all  - I am testing other stuff, also using the
> debugger.  Process explorer doesn't show any obvious candidate.  Or
> alternatively it could be any component with large memory usage - Rave is
> the only one I use of such size.  Or maybe the debugger is another candidate
> (I often run programs with a few breakoints set to check some variable
> values, thats pretty much all I do with it).
>
> Anyone else have any similar experience?
>
> The system is Windows XP SP2, 768MB Ram,  over 2GB free disk, have
> defragmented recently (it seems to help a lot), have sysinternals
> Processexplorer (thumbs up).
>
> John
>
>
>
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