> Windows 3.1, we used to run an Access database that exported its data to
> excel, with just those two programs running the meter would regularly dip
> into the red at which point the system crashed.
It's easy to write an app that'll chew memory... That's what you get for loading a
heavy-weight like excel and then asking it to do a naturally memmory intensive
task... It's likely in newer versions of Access that conversions are streamed to a
file but it wouldn't surprise me if the older versions did an in memory conversion
unprepared for the result of applying that kind of scale to the task.
> The same is true of 95/98, the resources are not infinite, adding more
> memory or disk or whatever will not increase them, and Delphi uses a lot of
> them for one reason or another when it's running. The 90% of resources in
> use warning is something I see almost every day. (My PC has 64MB and runs a
> permanent 64MB swapfile)
Hmm with 48mb RAM and a fixed 192mb swap I can run 4 copies of delphi with a
sizable project open, Outlook Express 5 2 explorers and a find dialog... It's worth
noting
that Delphi chews an easy 12-15mb on my NT machine per instance so 4 copies
rounds out nicely to 48mb and indicates a reasonable amount loaded.... If your
expectations of your OS go beyond this level of load you should definitely be using
a proffessional OS like NT anyway... with 3 delphis loaded I was able to compile the
application...
BTW... Has anyone used D5 beta... does it weigh in under the same monster-sized,
'far too man hitdice to count' memory footprint... If I purchase and install it will
it block
out the sun this time?
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Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
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