If I read you correctly, Emmitt, SET SCRATCH OFF is preferred in this environment. The
$$$ files are in the same directory as the database.
Emmitt Dove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Precisely. �I usually create a c:\temp. �This will cause the referenced
>memory errors.
>
>On Metaframe I'll put the temp folder on a drive other than the boot
>partition because the temp folder is in "my documents and settings ..." for
>each user. �This can quickly fill up the boot partition and cause Windows
>2000 Server to be very displeased. �Even with the temp folder on another
>drive, and having changed the environment variables for TEMP and TMP n
>Windows, referenced memory errors are common. �Remove the SET SCRATCH and
>it works fine (in conjunction with the fixed size page file described below).
>
>>Have you tried
>>
>>SET VAR vTemp = (ENVVAL('TEMP'))
>>SET SCRATCH &vTemp
>>
>>This will use the local temp directory, usually something like
>>C:\WINDOWS|TEMP
>>
>>
>>Emmitt Dove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >Alastair,
>> >
>> >Regarding the crashes, here are a couple of things I've found through
>> >experimentation:
>> >
>> >1. Most important of all, make sure your user has full rights to wherever
>> >the .$$$ files are to be written. �If the user has trouble writing the
>> >temporary files R:Base will be very unhappy. �Also, I have not had good
>> >luck trying to use the SET SCRATCH feature in a multiuser environment,
>> >particularly on Citrix, with TEMP and TMP pointing to a common folder on
>> >the server, even when EVERYONE had full rights to the folder.
>> >
>> >2. On Windows 2000 and XP, set the virtual memory to 1000 mb for both
>> >minimum and maximum. �A typical user with 128 megs of RAM and a virtual
>> >memory setting with 192 mb minimum will encounter a referenced memory error
>> >on the 3rd or 4th mouseclick in our application (first click clears a
>> >splash, 2nd click selects a sub menu, 3rd click selects a program to run,
>> >4th click runs the program - boom.) �Setting the min and max both to 1 gig
>> >eliminated the referenced memory errors.
>> >
>> >
>> >>All I have been trying to do is find out what has been causing the numerous
>> >>unexplained crashes I get with R:Base. The biggest improvement in months,
>> >>maybe a year, has been to change the extension for a file that I run from
>> >>.DAT to .$$$.
>> >>
>> >>Most crashes now occur when I first run R:Base so that once it has started
>> >>it's much more stable. However the command file that is run on start-up can
>> >>also be "quit to" numerous times in a session without crashing.
>> >>
>> >>Writing that has just given me an idea - maybe I should "quit to" the file
>> >>at the start. More testing coming up...
>> >>
>> >>Regards,
>> >>Alastair.
>> >
>> >Emmitt Dove
>> >Manager, DairyPak Business Systems
>> >Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc.
>> >40 Lindeman Drive
>> >Trumbull, CT �06611
>> >(203) 673-2231
>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>--
>>Albert Berry
>>Full Time Consultant to
>>PSD Solutions
>>350 West Hubbard, Suite 210
>>Chicago, IL 60610
>>312-828-9253 Ext. 32
>>
>>
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>Emmitt Dove
>Manager, DairyPak Business Systems
>Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc.
>40 Lindeman Drive
>Trumbull, CT �06611
>(203) 673-2231
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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PSD Solutions
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Chicago, IL 60610
312-828-9253 Ext. 32
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