Re: Memory Leak

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr_at_www.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:07:47 +1100
Message-ID: <3bdf6ad4$0$27003$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

Well, two key phrases in your post sprang to my attention: "Even before I ran the Universal Installer...." and "I uninstalled all the Oracle files...and am still experienceing the memory leak".

The other key phrase was "...for Win98".

You're using a dodgy operating system that experienced memory problems before Oracle got anywhere near your machine. Incidentally, the idea of using third-party memory utilities on Win98 is a disaster waiting to happen.

It's got zilch to do with Oracle, and everything to do with Windows 98 (or your particular configuration of it, anyway). Do yourself a favour, and upgrade to Windows XP Home -memory leaks will be a thing of the past, and Oracle will work quite nicely on it. (If you insist, go for Windows 2000 Professional -which is basically XP, but without all the glitz). Not a cheap option, I agree. And I won't even say that Oracle never has memory leaks, because it does, occasionally -but not before you run the installer it doesn't!

Regards
HJR

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"Lance" <lancehatfield_at_atl.mediaone.net> wrote in message
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> Good evening,

>

> Hoping someone here might be able to point me in the right direction with

a


> problem I've encountered.  I recently downloaded 8.1.7 for Win98 to help

> study for OCP.  Even before I ran the Universal Installer, but after

> extracting the zip file, I noticed that my PC was experiencing a serious

> memory leak.

>

> I successfully ran the installer, but noticed that the memory leak was

> horrendous.  I decided to go ahead and uninstall all the Oracle files, and

> deleted all the folders associated with the installation and the extracted

> zip file.  However, I am still experiencing the memory leak.  For example,

> if I start up or reboot my computer, once it has fully cycled through the

> startup, the pc is running with about 15% memory free.  I can free it up

> (using MaxMem), but it will quickly run back down, without running any

> programs.

>

> I'd appreciate any suggestions anyone might have for this newbie.

>

>

Received on Tue Oct 30 2001 - 21:07:47 CST