Hundreds upon thousands of apps behave properly under Windows. Now, if the response was 'this is a legacy environment which cannot run under modern Windows kernels', I'd probably accept it. But to say 'Microsoft changed windows, it's their fault', really doesn't fly well with me. I probably have 5 virtual memory crashes a day (from my users, not my own machine). They're tired of me telling them that there's nothing that can be done about it, and I'm tired of hearing about the problem So I had a well known and very skilled RBase developer track down the problem. And I/he believe it's been pinpointed and reproduceable. Hopefully he can get RBTI to reproduce it and help him/us out.
One thing that seems to aggrevate the problem is when you have 2 Rbase applications running at the same time IE, RBase Dos and an Oterro application. This combo creates an unusable (so slow) system on 98 machines, and virtual memory problems on NT machines. I don't have the RBase background, nore the low level debugging skills (tracking memory interrupts directly would be required) to figure out a problem like that. Eric Peterson IT Manager QMI Roll Shutter Supply -----Original Message----- From: Albert Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XP Pro and 6.5++ In extended testing earlier this year, we isolated the problem to NT kernels as well, but find that the problem does not occur with NT 4.0, only subsequent versions of Windows, where the DOS box is an emulation. In our opinion, it is a Microsoft problem. "Eric Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We have this same issue here. �What I usually find it to be is bad code >in that portion of the program, a variable or something. � > >It's also possible you are 'running out' of virtual memory. �Certain >looping procedures in our app cause virtual memory to get completely >taken and eventually RBase hangs or crashes. �This is not a feature or >problem with Windows (it happens on NT Kernel machines (nt,2k,xp)). >It's a bug in RBase or the Dos extender. �We think we've found it but >RBTI doesn't like to hear that it's app is the one causing problems, >they like to blame Windows, which is not the problem. > > >Eric Peterson >IT Manager >QMI Roll Shutter Supply > > >-----Original Message----- >From: marc schluter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:22 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: XP Pro and 6.5++ > >Hi all --- sorry, I hit Enter and I think I sent a >response too soon. �First mistake this year! > >I am running RBW 6.5++ with the second patch installed >on XP pro. �I have not installed the latest patch for >XP. > >I get kicked out of RBase about 1-2 times a week at >different spots. �I am unable to duplicate the >crashes. > >Is there something I should look for or is this a >feature in Windows to free up memory? > >Thanks >marc > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site >http://webhosting.yahoo.com >================================================ >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >================================================ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l >================================================ >TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: >http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ >================================================ >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >================================================ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l >================================================ >TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: >http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > -- Albert Berry Full Time Consultant to PSD Solutions 350 West Hubbard, Suite 210 Chicago, IL 60610 312-828-9253 Ext. 32 __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
