Emmitt I'd like to try your virtual memory change for my XP computer to see if it solves a problem I'm having with a LOAD .. AS FORMATTED command that RBTI cannot at this point replicate.
Your email said: "On Windows 2000 and XP, set the virtual memory to 1000 mb for both minimum and maximum" Not being familiar with this setting, I went to help on my XP. What I found was a reference to changing the "virtual memory paging file". Is that what you mean? It says to do this to: 1.. Open Computer Management (Local). 2.. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then select Properties. 3.. On the Advanced tab, click Performance Options, and under Virtual memory, click Change. 4.. In the Drive list, click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change. 5.. Under Paging file size for selected drive, type a new paging file size in megabytes in the Initial Size (MB) or Maximum Size (MB) box, and then click Set. If you decrease the size of either the minimum or maximum page file settings, you must restart your computer to see the effects of those changes. Increases generally do not require a restart. 6.. Notes a.. To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management. Is this the right spot to change? David Blocker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emmitt Dove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 2:05 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Funny That You Should Mention It ... > 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] > >
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