[AccessD] Out of Memory problems - AXP/WinXP

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Tue Jul 13 12:03:13 CDT 2004


Yep.  It spikes at the time we get the message, but it doesn't look like
a leak, since it isn't crawling up gradually.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Colby, John [mailto:JColby at dispec.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:41 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Out of Memory problems - AXP/WinXP


Have you looked at task manager to see if the memory usage is inching
upwards?

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlotte Foust [mailto:cfoust at infostatsystems.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:30 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Out of Memory problems - AXP/WinXP


Further to this, the low end machine it failing at nearly 5000
distributions over several days, while the others are blowing up at
around 500 or 600 over some hours.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlotte Foust 
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:27 AM
To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Out of Memory problems - AXP/WinXP


I'm wracking my brains to figure out why an AXP application of ours
exhibits different behavior on different but similar machines.  We have
an app that simply sits there and distributes reports, either by email,
to a printer or to PDF files.  It operates on a timer and checks to see
if new data has been received.  If it has, it checks the distributions
configured and sends the reports.  The baffling thing is that at some
point, we get a "not enough memory" error that brings it to a halt.  The
brute force method is to shut the thing down and restart it.  We could
even do that automatically, but the trouble is we can't figure out what
causes it.  It does not appear to be memory leak and we've tried
everything we can think of: tweaking the virtual memory, turning off
file indexing, changing the interval, updating the jet service pack to
8, etc.  It is very consistent on each machine, but the machines we can
test it on don't fall over at the same point.   The best performance
comes from the machine with the least RAM, the oldest video card and the
slowest processor, but all are running WinXP SP-1 and OXP SP-2.  All the
machines are P-4s, have 40GB HD and have some flavor of NVIDIA Getforce2
adapters.  The best performance is coming from the 256 MB RAM machine
with a 1.50 Ghz CPU.

I'm tearing my hair out in handfuls, and I can't find a clue anywhere
I've looked.  Can anyone shed any light on this?

Charlotte Foust
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