It seems that each instance of my VFP application take less then 10MB RAM at start. It is almost independent of exe size (I tested sizes between 5-35MB).
Use of memory grows when (after app starting) user runs my app forms.
So it seems that successively creating objects while application is running may have greater influence on memory consumption than exe size.



>>Hi !
>>In meantime I thought a little bit about it.
>>It DOS time we have 640 KB memory and average application was about 300KB and worked fine. Now workstation has 64-256 MB RAM. If we use simple comparison
>>VFP application with exe size up to 128MB should run just fine when it is installed on local drive.
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>Or larger. Remember that Windows uses virtual memory too. Besides, I doubt whether the entire EXE has to be loaded all at once into RAM + virtual memory.
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>>In network environment we can use a launcher to start it from local drive and again all is OK with big exe file.
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>Although this will speed things up, maintenance (upgrading) is easier if you launch from a shared network folder.
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>>But there is a next question:
>>what about application that runs on terminal server - does size matter in such environment (for example 20 user an 1GB memory on server) ?
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>Personally, I don't know about terminal server, but I understand you save the overhead of transferring the EXE over the network. Only images are transferred - and I was told (by the president of dbi-tech) that a 386 with 8 MB RAM can handle that.
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>Hilmar.