Re: Memory Leak

Thanks for the reply. I am looking to upgrade to XP, but haven't seen anything being offered by Oracle for that platform. Has Oracle certified 8i (or 9i) for XP?

I won't argue the point about Win98, but in it's defense, I haven't had a memory leak problem (at least, nothing nearly as dramatic as what is currently happening) in the 2+ years I've been running on it. It wasn't until I extracted the 8.1.7 zip file that the problem occurred. Not saying it's Oracle's fault, but somehow, this triggered the situation. No other changes had/have been made to my system for at least a week prior to this.

One point I failed to mention in my original post, which could very well be part of the problem is that I am running 96MB ram.

My main goal right now is to stop the leak, as it is a royal pain in the a$$. Of course, if it continues, it might help convince my wife to let me upgrade with a new PC altogether! Seriously though, I rather fix this issue for now.

Thanks again!

Lance

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message news:3bdf6ad4$0$27003$afc38c87_at_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
> news:H2JD7.3304$KE2.2233643_at_typhoon.jacksonville.mediaone.net...
> > 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 Wed Oct 31 2001 - 05:47:05 CST