Re: RDP 8.5 eating memory

[Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ken

Oh yah, fragmentation is a real issue with me, for whatever reason my main
drive is FAT32 (ugh).  My PC gurus must have cloned it from an old image or
something.

I've moved my workspaces to a separate partition on my drive so I can mess
up and defrag just that.

Stu




On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mike,
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> 1. Dunno where the erorr log may be nor how to find it.
> 2. Mostly for RPGLE members.  C language will allocate a KB (but released
> when closed).  CLP (CLLE) a few KB and NOT released upon  close.
> 3. Yes, turning off the auto-outline still does it, but to a lesser
> degree.  The manual outline will bump up a couple of meg, and not release
> it when the member is closed.  The auto-outline (for same member) will bump
> up 30MB (approx 10x the normal outline) and not release it.
>
> Must be something to do with all the outline data -- members with no
> possibility of an outline (like C or TXT) seem to not allocate storage
> forever, things that may have an outline do allocate LOTS of memory and
> don't release it.
>
> Stu
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> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Mike Hockings <hockings@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Hi Stuart,
> >
> > Do you see any messages in the workspace Error Log file ?
> > Do you see the memory use increase for all files or just some particular
> > file(s)?
> > If you switch to the old outline view do you see the same symptoms?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > Mike Hockings, M.Eng., P.Eng.
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> >
> > From:   Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To:     "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
> > Client for      System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > Date:   2013-01-08 11:18
> > Subject:        [WDSCI-L] RDP 8.5 eating memory
> > Sent by:        wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyone run across this?  As I run with RDP8.5 open all day, eventually it
> > consumes just over 2GB of memory.  Response time begins to degrade, when I
> > notice this I close it and restart it, but sort of a pain to do that
> > several times a day.
> >
> > I noticed that opening a given member uses 30MB of memory.  Closing the
> > member does not release the storage.  Opening the same member again uses
> > another 30MB, and so on and so on until it can't run anymore.
> >
> > Any thoughts as to anything I can do from this end to help it release
> > resources?
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