Hi Michael,

Unfortunately I haven't got an answer for you, but that
" Available physical memory: 196 KB* " looks awfully low indeed!

Could there be something in your BIOS or possibly required in early OS loading which is causing your PHYSICAL RAM to *NOT* be used for general processing?

The fact that you are using 10% of SWAP also contributes to my suspicion here.

I also have to wonder why it is using SWAP at all when you have 196KB of RAM left. Also, why is it complaining about lack of memory with all that SWAP available? Seems that SWAP is only used for certain things.

All I can suggest is that you monitor similarly after *each* failure to see if maybe each/any is failing to release RAM back to OS.

By the way, one wonders how it determines 10% when you could use more and more space until you exhaust it?!

Good luck,

Jim N


>Greetings!
>
>I am experiencing significant memory trouble with VFP6, preventing me from fully utililizing tools like the Class Browser and Component Gallery. Occasionally, VFP6 crashes while in design mode.
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>Frequently, just after VFP6 loads, I receive the following error:
>"Memory is low, so streaming output updating has been disabled."
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>This causes any text output, such as SAY (which I use for quick menus) to be displayed much slower.
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>I also receive plenty of "Not enough memory to complete operation" errors. Tools like the Class Browser or Component Gallery bomb after drilling down into an object.
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>I shut down most everything I have running, except for some utilities on the task bar, such as the scheduler or the RealAudio icon.
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>My system has 132megs of RAM, over 500megs left on C: and over 2gigs left on D:. I have the Windows virtual memory set to default (letting Windows manage it). Below is a partial dump of MSINFO during the last VFP6 session experiencing the errors. (I have the full dump MSINFO dump if necessary.) I would appreciate ANY input on what could be happening here. One thing I notice is that the GDI resources look quite low, but I do not know how to rectify it, aside from rebooting... which would be frequent.
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>Thanks!
>
>Michael Reynolds
>
>
>Operating System: Windows 95
>Windows version: 4.0
>Processor: Pentium
>Total physical memory: 130572 KB
>Available physical memory: 196 KB*
>USER memory available: 67%
>GDI memory available: 6%
>Swap file size: 52736 KB
>Swap file usage: 10%
>Swap file setting: Dynamic
>Available space on drive C: 532064 KB
>Available space on drive D: 2096832 KB
>Windows directory: C:\WINDOWS
>TEMP directory: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP