David, Microsoft Knowledge Base article 308417 (Set Performance Options in Win XP) describes how to do this.
Bernie Lis ----- Original Message ----- From: "David M. Blocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 11:43 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Funny That You Should Mention It ... > 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] > > > > > >
