How about using SYS(3050,1,VAL(SYS(3050,1,0))/3). VFP in NT eats too much memory- this is a way to throttle it back to a manageable situation. I found this a while back in the MS knowledgebase for optimizing VFP apps...
>Hilmar,
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>>Visual FoxPro is quite heavy on RAM. As soon as you open 2 or 3 applications, Windows may start to use virtual memory.
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>>Perhaps the NT machines happen to have more RAM.
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>>If my guess is correct, probably the only solution is to install more physical RAM.
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>Good point, but I think the machines have enough RAM. During the long pauses there is no activity on the hard drives, and one of the machines in question has 128 MB or RAM, I believe (which is the same as our developer workstations).
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>More RAM is always a good idea though...I wonder if I can get the admins to give these guys more memory based on this? *smile*
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>Thanks for your response!
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>JoeK