-----Original Message----- From: Walt Daniels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:27 PM To: ebase newbies; A. Kalatiitananda; Dave Shaw Subject: RE: [NEWBIES] ebase always crashes My first reaction for unexplained crashes is to increase the memory allocation of the application that is crashing. I don't know how to do that for Wintel machines. Maybe someone else can chime in. Are you using FileMaker or the runtime when this happens? -- Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338 - ------------------ Wintel machines get that right unlike a Mac which always crashes if there is not enough memory. Wintel will just use virtual memory (possibly flogging the disk to death) until it runs out of disk space or some very large amount (maybe 2G) of virtual memory. However if you use too much of several types of special purpose memory (like most Adobe products) you will run these out of space and most likely crash many applications running simultaneously. The cure is to run fewer simultaneous programs. FileMaker does not seem to use much of GDI Free or User Free so it is usually not the cause of problems. I doubt if it make any difference whether you are running runtime or FileMaker in terms of memory usage. You can look at the system resources by right clicking on MyComputer, selecting properties, and selecting the Performance tab and looking at the System free %. If you are over 80% you are approaching the danger zone. All this system resource crap is gone in Win2k. --- You are currently subscribed to support as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
