Thanks Eric Actally I belive you are right, but I still would like a temp solution that can can give me the time I need to convert an old DOS R:Base to 7.0
Gunnar Ekblad -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Fr�n: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] F�r Eric Peterson Skickat: den 15 september 2003 15:03 Till: RBASE-L Mailing List �mne: [RBASE-L] - Re: NTVDM That is not a solution. Furthermore, it doesn't work in the long run. Eric Peterson IT Manager QMI Security Solutions -----Original Message----- From: Jim Limburg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 6:55 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: NTVDM Gunnar I seem to remember something about someone on this list doing just a plain zip cmd /c to regain memory, or something to that effect. I will see if I can find the post. Jim Gunnar Ekblad wrote: > Dennis > I found this > I use memoryblaster to view the memory (512MB and virtual set to 4000 MB) > The memory usage never goes over 70% > What I do in my 2 level while endwhile > Run a report and then do > Zip cmd /c copy filename.txt lpt5 > I have found out today that if in the loop I instead append the report to > the file and just copy once at the end of the commandfile everything works > without a NTVDM error > So for time being my conclusion is that ZIP is the memory leak cause > I will continue watching and testing If I find more I report > > Gunnar Ekblad > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Fr�n: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] F�r Dennis McGrath > Skickat: den 13 september 2003 14:25 > Till: RBASE-L Mailing List > �mne: [RBASE-L] - Re: NTVDM > > Gunnar, > > As long as you are testing, run the report several time while watching > memory usage with the task manager. If you se the leak, try doing the > same thing with rabase running under win98 compatibility mode and see > if the memory leak is fixed. Let us know what you find. > > Dennis McGrath > > --- Gunnar Ekblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>J.M >>I am not sure exactly but NTVDM is something like NT Virtual Dos >>Machine >>Mostly no problem, but a report running in 2 level deep while loop >>sometimes >>get stuck on XP maschine with an error on no available NTVDM memory, >>while >>it never happens on a ME PC (I had plan move that last PC to XP as >>well so >>all users run the same OS again, but don't dare yet) >>The problem is not consistent after a reboot it normally works, this >>is a >>once a month problem for my monthly reporting. I always get the >>report out >>one way or an other, I just whish my user could do it herself month >>after >>month without asking me to fix the report out. >>I will do some more testing on this in the weekend I report if I can >>get the >>problem to disappear. >>Some more people claim there is some kind of memory leak problem in >>XP with >>R:Base dos 6.5++ latest and greatest 1.866 >> >>As for uour problem the first I would test is RBW 1.866 before doing >>anything else >> >>Gunnar Ekblad >> >> >>-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- >>Fr�n: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] F�r J.M. GRATIAS >>Skickat: den 12 september 2003 22:33 >>Till: RBASE-L Mailing List >>�mne: [RBASE-L] - Re: NTVDM >> >> >>Gunnar : >> >> >>I am sure 98% of this >>List would agree on that, but have you tried to explain it to a user >>that >>needs to do 4 extra reboots a day or "steal" a colleges ME.PC just to >>get a >>report out! >>So before I start going back in Time and start using ME/982E I would >>like >>to >>find a solution or a workaround on the NTVDM error message >>< >> >>What means NTVDM ? >> >>Yesterday I visted a client that run one of my RBW 6.5++ app >>(1.851xRT03) >>on an old NT WS 128 Mo RAM without any problems. >> >>I asked my to move the same app on a brand new XP SP1 512 Mo RAM >>..... and >>there the problems begins (page fault, violation exception .....). >> >> >>J.M. GRATIAS, Logimatique >> > > >
