Count me in the teensie minority.

If this is the cause of the slow down, then it sucks. When I say release,.. I mean RELEASE.

What part of "release" does it not understand?
:)


>The short answer, Dean, is PROBABLY but not certainly.
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>If you have ANY reference to the form or any reference to any object ON THE FORM stored in a variable OUTSIDE OF THE FORM, then I believe the answer is NO. This is called a "dangling reference" and prevents ANY kind of release from occurring, although it NEVER TELLS YOU THAT!!!
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>I've always said that VFP NEEDS to tell us when it decides not to release someting that I explicitly tell it to release, but I am apparently in a teensie minority on the issue. People actually have argued to me that it is a good thing that it works the way it does.
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>good luck
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>>Thanks Jim.
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>>When I issue THISFORM.RELEASE(), shouldn't this release the objects on that form?
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>>>Since it starts out OK and slows down through the day, I'd suspect things like a memory "leak".
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>>>Things like objects not ACTUALLY releasing because of 'dangling object references' or cursors left open or lots and lots of SQLs run in tight loops can cause this kind of thing.
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>>>good luck
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>>>
>>>>Hello all.
>>>>Some of my clients tell me that the applicaton run porgressively slow from morning to evening. They reboot the machine about mid day to refresh the machine.
>>>>
>>>>Is this normal or is there anything I can do to keep the application running smoothly through out the day?
>>>>
>>>>thanks.