Heh. The skeptic in me says that is Microsoft trying to get you to forget how fast Windows XP WAS so that when Windows Vista comes out you look at it and think "oh, that's not so slow after all, it might even be faster than XP, maybe I will buy it"
Conspiracy theory? Or reality?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul A Norman
Sent: Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:46 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] D2006/Rave/Memory
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 < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:34 a.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'; [email protected]
Subject: [DUG] D2006/Rave/MemoryI 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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