Ales Zigon

Hi!

Is there a way to find what resides in memory after the program termination?
Just found that if I run my program like 15 times (testing in IDE), suddenly I get Out of memory error (Celeron 566, 256 RAM).
I'm pretty sure I clean up everything (I'm only using one connection and recordset after all).

So, is there a way?

[size=small]Sitting here and looking stoopid...[/size]

phinds

one suggestion: use the task manager to see if you have left instantiations of any processes running without meaning to.

Ales Zigon

I did that. Nothing unusual there...
Could it be that CorelDraw would cause these problems? I just remembered, I had it running along with VB (Editing some background images)?

Sometimes it also heppened that the system became highly unstable (once I couldn't even shut it down [98SE] - crash!).

LiquidPenguin

I get the same thing too. It's because the program either chokes and dies and never cleans up its instances or objects. It also occurs when I use the IDE to shut down the program instead of within the program. If I'm very careful and minimize the number of times I have to allow the IDE the clean up, I find that the memory leak all but goes away.

Most things are supposed to get cleaned up in the IDE. But it's all too easy to write code that prevents that. Such as opening databases, ActiveX, API calls, even simple things like having a picture loaded into RAM will fill it up pretty quickly.

So using the IDE it's kind of hard to gauge leaks like that in the wild. Best thing to do is to actually compile the code and run it a few hundred... thousand times.

Ales Zigon

Yes, I was thinking of that. While it's a bit annoying to compile the code each and every time I want to test something, I think it will just have to do.

Thanks.