Eric This particular thread I fell responsible for starting over a month ago. I am in way pleased to have found that I am not alone on this one. And with help Of Dennis I will do some more testing in a few days with an UDF solution. His suggestion has passed my first test, but volume testing will give the verdict. I must say however much I want the problem to disappear, since my users are blaming me for all the reboots they have to do.
BUT I believe we have to accept that there will be no more releases in 6.5++ RBTI in my opinion should focus 1. 7.0 win version 2. 7.0 DOS version which I very much look forward to. So Eric please join me in a plea that DOS 7.0 will haven taken care of an elusive problem that I cant replicate but know will happen now and then. And if DOS 7.0 does not do it I suppose even I will eventually have to give up DOS apps and go for windows. Gunnar -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Fr�n: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] F�r Eric Peterson Skickat: den 15 september 2003 19:11 Till: RBASE-L Mailing List �mne: [RBASE-L] - Re: NTVDM In our situation, throughout the course of the day, we'll have 4-5 people have to restart their computers 1-3 times. Every routine in our application does a zip return when it returns to the main menu. So what I mean is that in our situation, zip return doesn't work all the time. Why doesn't it work? I have no idea and really don't have the time to figure it out. Our consultant has notified RBTI as have many readers on this list and they just ignore the problem. Eric Peterson IT Manager QMI Security Solutions -----Original Message----- From: Jim Limburg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 11:55 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: NTVDM Eric Can you expound on your comment / findings. Do you mean it doesn't work in the long run ... meaning it doesn't release all memory, so you still end up running out of resources or.. it doesn't work in the long run ... meaning in a "loop" it doesn't work correctly or at all. or .. it doesn't work in the long run ... meaning you have found a situation in which it doesn't work or .. some other pertinent information. Much appreciated Jim Limburg Eric Peterson wrote: > 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 >>> >> >> >> > >
