[DUG] Windows Virtual Memory and IDE

[Kyley Harris]

600 adds up to your peak consumptions roughly. It may just be the memory
manager being efficient and not doing anything until necessary. If you
start another application that uses a lot of memory, it probably will
reallocate. 

Create yourself an app that allocations a few hundred MB of ram and
watch what happens

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Saturday, 13 May 2006 2:17 p.m.
To: johnkbird at paradise.net.nz; 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi
List'; kaller at ihug.co.nz
Subject: [DUG] Windows Virtual Memory and IDE

I often have problems with Windows Virtual Memory running out with the
IDE
open,  I have Sysinternals Process Explorer, and it says the system
memory
commit is at 600MB - it was up to 880MB.  Installed memory RAM is 768MB.

The two candidates for causing problems are BDS and Firefox, and I don't
know which.  I have been opening and closing a lot of tabs in Firefox
today,
both Firefox and BDS show a current working set of around 60MB, and a
peak
working set  for each of over 200MB.  I think Firefox tabs with Flash
elements seem to be one cause (chews bandwidth and memory leaks too
maybe).
But today I was mainly just looking at graphics (NASA Cassini images,
inspired by the recent cosmological thread).

Compiling today was a program using TRvSystem (Rave code based reports).

I have no plugins loaded into FF, and just the fast start one for BDS
(BDS
2006 professional).

For instance here are the largest processes currently running, in
descending
order.

Process		Description
Working Set	Peak Working Set
firefox.exe		Firefox
54,688 K	228,680 K
bds.exe		BorlandR Developer Studio for Windows
41,576 K	206,876 K
dexplore.exe	Microsoft Document Explorer
27,644 K	28,228 K
OUTLOOK.EXE		Microsoft Outlook
27,408 K	35,600 K
explorer.exe	Windows Explorer
26,620 K	31,656 K
svchost.exe		Generic Host Process for Win32 Services
22,572 K	34,080 K
procexp.exe		Sysinternals Process Explorer
12,688 K	12,928 K
nod32krn.exe	NOD32 Kernel Service
11,728 K	22,628 K
GoogleDesktopIndex.exe
9,052 K	15,000 K
Skype.exe		Skype.
7,232 K	24,308 K
editplus.exe	EditPlus
5,088 K	5,096 K

(from systinternals process explorer - free btw)

Yet the current commit charge (memory use) is 600MB, close to my memory
limit of 768MB.

Any suggestions what to look for?

John


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