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02/04/1999 18:25:14
 
 
To
02/04/1999 18:11:36
Jacques Parent
Marco Michaud Informatique Inc.
Val-D'Or, Quebec, Canada
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00202165
Message ID:
00204840
Views:
47
>You said that you have some program that are running on NT Server as service. Does your services uses big amount of memory? I ask you that because i tested my service on Windows NT today and I found that my service need from 50 - 60 MB of RAM to run.
>
>What it does is downloading some raw test files, treating them into a database. The program makes 5 different pass (with 5 different files) and it sort a couple of million record by pass.
>
>May it be because I use cursor (for temp file) insted of standard table? If not, WHY? Do you have any idea?
>

Unless you do something to limit VFP's use of memory, it will glom everything it can get it's hands on. You can restrict this using SYS(3050); you need to set both the foreground and background memory use limits. See the VFP help for more details.

>Jacques Parent
>jack@cablevision.qc.ca
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