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Maybe OT - Out of Memory

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    #1

    Maybe OT - Out of Memory

    Morning

    Build 1600

    Not sure if my concern is an XP issue or A5. Tested a few other workstations with recent but older A5 builds with same result.

    I have a form with many image ref fields. After image placement and associated text and stuff, it counts the photos. Then a preview button calls up the appropriate report that has the same image ref fields in conditional opbects.

    Each time I preview a record, about 50 to 100 mb of memory is consumed - the cumulative file size of all the photos on the report showing and being hidden by the cond objects. That would be OK, except the memory doesn't get released on closing the preview. So each record ( or the same record) just keeps compounding the memory usage and fairly soon I'm out of memory.
    If I use the preview report button from the report window and use the record navigtion buttons, it's ok, just the initial report consuming 100 mb ram. But if I close the report window and open the report again, it consumes more memory.

    Granted, this is a fairly heavy duty form and report I'm using but I would have thought it would release ram upon closing the preview.
    I used the same report layout (without conditional objects) last fall and don't recall the out of memory error (they were smaller report sizes, but after repeated use something should have shown up).

    Any idea what I can do except close A5 every 10 reports?
    (mem returns to normal upon closing A5)

    (Apologies if I missed this topic anywhere but I found no reference to it)

    Thanks
    Duane
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    RE: Maybe OT - Out of Memory

    Evening

    Well I did some testing with smaller report sizes (less photos) and it does the same - accumulation of reports and an increase in the page file usage.

    Did some testing in V5 as well - same.

    So this explains some issues we were having in the past without noticing what it really was.

    So, now I have to ask if there is a way to flush the memory on the fly without having to close and restart A5.

    Or am I missing something obvious here?

    Thanks
    Duane

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      #3
      Re: Maybe OT - Out of Memory

      Did you ever solved this 'memory hog' problem???
      I've the same kind of problem while saving a report as PDF.

      Kind regards,

      Brendo
      Ing./bict Brendo Bongers
      Software Engineer
      http://www.brendobongers.nl

      "There's more than one way to skin a cat."

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        #4
        Re: Maybe OT - Out of Memory

        Workaround the memory problem, used a third party activex (www.cete.com) component to create a PDF on the fly without memory leaks.
        Ing./bict Brendo Bongers
        Software Engineer
        http://www.brendobongers.nl

        "There's more than one way to skin a cat."

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          #5
          Re: Maybe OT - Out of Memory

          If you want to (or have to) use third party tools then why not use a memory manager such as Cacheman ( http://www.download.com/3000-2094-10018600.html ) which used to be free but is now $10. There are other ones still free out there as well that work. I had used earlier versions of cacheman when I had Win98 as my OS which resulted in ZERO BSODs occurring for over a year while actually multitasking with it!
          Mike
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            #6
            Re: Maybe OT - Out of Memory

            Thanks Mike...but ..

            It has nothing got to do with not enough OS memory, Alpha can't address not all of the available OS memory. While generating a report-layout multiple times it's not releasing the used memory when it's finished(memoryleak).

            I can put 2 or even more gig of memory in to the MS 2003 server, Alpha still crashed when it reached approx the 300 MB.
            Ing./bict Brendo Bongers
            Software Engineer
            http://www.brendobongers.nl

            "There's more than one way to skin a cat."

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