Re: Memory Leak in Forms 5.0?

I haven't to Forms 6.0. But as told by Oracle Support, this bug is already fixed in Forms 6.0. Maybe this time they are wrong again if you still encounter this problem in Forms 6.0.

Anyway, do you have any solution or alternative towards this problem?

Thanks!

Cyrus

Raffi wrote:

> > I am using Forms 5.0.16 on NT workstation 4 (SP3) and found that
> > memory will be used-up by my application after calling new forms (by
> > 'new_form' built-in) over about 20 times. The memory will only be free
> > after the application is closed. I suppose this is the bug of an older
> > version of Forms but this bug happens again in Forms 5.0.
> >
> > I've called the local Oracle Support a week ago but I am so
> > disappointed. Because they still cannot give me a definitely solution on
> > the problem but only told me that this is a bug of Forms 5.0.
>
> This bug is in Forms 6.0 too. Any form 'eat' minimum 4KB of memory
> (interesant that 4kB 'eat' any cursor opened in Forms). I have tested this
> problem in my work on many forms and ANY form calling with NEW_FORM give
> 40-300kB of memory. Mayby this problem is on Windows side (mayby resources).
>
> Raffi
Received on Thu Jul 08 1999 - 16:16:36 CEST