[AccessD] Access keeping memory resources

David Emerson davide at dalyn.co.nz
Tue Dec 2 19:12:25 CST 2003


Ah,  I did find a couple that were missed.  I will try that.

As a side issue,  If a recordset variable is being used several times in a 
procedure, should it be set to Nothing between being set to a different 
record set, or is it ok just to set it to nothing at the end of the procedure?

David

At 2/12/2003, you wrote:
>Usually, that means "leaky" code.  Are you explicitly destroying the
>object variables?  Has the job actually printed or is it still being
>spooled to/by the printer?
>
>Charlotte Foust
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Emerson [mailto:davide at dalyn.co.nz]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 4:09 PM
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: [AccessD] Access keeping memory resources
>
>
>Group,
>
>WXP, AXP ade / SQL 2K BE
>
>I have an accounts report which is printed off at the end of each
>month.  There are about 1800 customers and each account is 2 pages.  I
>have
>set up my program so that it prints them in batches (groups of 600
>customers at a time - this results in a print job of about 50MB).  When
>the
>first batch is finished a box appears asking if the first batch is to be
>
>reprinted or the next one done.  The operator waits until the first
>batch
>is completely printed before sending the next batch to the printer.
>
>The problem is that Access doesn't free up the physical memory between
>batches with the result that a "virtual memory low" errors appear and
>the
>print jobs stop ignominiously.
>
>We found that running a single batch, closing Access, then opening it
>again
>frees memory for the next batch.  However this is not an acceptable
>solution.  The computer has 500Mb memory at the moment and we are going
>to
>increase this to 1GB, however this will only delay the evil day.
>
>Does anyone know why Access doesn't free up the resources once it has
>finished with them, or how we can do it without closing Access between
>print jobs?
>
>Regards
>
>David Emerson
>Dalyn Software Ltd
>25 Cunliffe St, Churton Park
>Wellington, New Zealand
>Ph/Fax (877) 456-1205
>
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