RE: Problem of lack of resources ?

Question

We are also having problems similar to what you have described. I have
not reported this to tech. support because it happens
infrequently. Most of our problems happen when we are trying to update,
integrate, and compile. Debug seems to be working fine.
The strange thing to me is that my PC has 64 meg and I am allocating 54
meg to Forte. I thing there are some internal problems with
3.0 working on 95. I never had this problems on NT. Hopefully the next
release will solve the problem.
Kamran Amin
Technical Leader, Software Engineering
[email protected]
203-459-7362 - CT, Trumbull
Oxford Health Plans
http://www.oxhp.com/
From: Cristina Tomacelli[SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 1997 6:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Problem of lack of resources ?
Hi all,
we are developing using Forte' 3.0.E on Windows 95 and Windows NT client,
with 32 MB RAM. We are experiencing some strange behaviours. When we
update, integrate, compile or debug from the client Forte', the client pc
slows down terribly and frequently blocks at all. We can overcome the
problem for update, integrate and compile if we use FSCRIPT, but we have no
solution for the debugger.
It has happened that we clicked on the debugger button and after 20 minutes
it hadn't started yet ! (obviously we gave up). In this case specific, the
application was built in Express and it WASN'T very big !
If we try doing the same operations from a NT server with 128 MB RAM we
have no problems.
Is it a problem of resource lack ? What's the recommended platform /
configuration ? Perhaps NT client with 64 MB RAM ?
TIA
Regards
Cristina Tomacelli
Cristina Tomacelli - CSI Piemonte
Corso Unione Sovietica, 216 - 10134 TORINO - ITALY
E-mail address: [email protected]
Telephone Number: [phone]

Answer 1

Cristina,
What did you specify as memory flags when starting your Forte
development workbench.
We generally provide Forte with an object space of 16 to 24 MBytes.
The command syntax looks something like this :
ftexec -fi ct:%forte_root%\userapp\forte\cl0\forte -fm "(n:16000
x:24000)" ...
If you want to monitor how much of your object space is used and how
often has the garbage collection mechanism to start reclaiming space,
try this: trc:os:1:1.
Hope this helps, Bernard.
From: Cristina Tomacelli[SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, 03 November, 1997 12:06
To: [email protected]
Subject: Problem of lack of resources ?
Hi all,
we are developing using Forte' 3.0.E on Windows 95 and Windows NT client,
with 32 MB RAM. We are experiencing some strange behaviours. When we
update, integrate, compile or debug from the client Forte', the client pc
slows down terribly and frequently blocks at all. We can overcome the
problem for update, integrate and compile if we use FSCRIPT, but we have no
solution for the debugger.
It has happened that we clicked on the debugger button and after 20 minutes
it hadn't started yet ! (obviously we gave up). In this case specific, the
application was built in Express and it WASN'T very big !
If we try doing the same operations from a NT server with 128 MB RAM we
have no problems.
Is it a problem of resource lack ? What's the recommended platform /
configuration ? Perhaps NT client with 64 MB RAM ?
TIA
Regards
Cristina Tomacelli
Cristina Tomacelli - CSI Piemonte
Corso Unione Sovietica, 216 - 10134 TORINO - ITALY
E-mail address: [email protected]
Telephone Number: [phone]