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From: mr@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dBASE IV -- Insufficient memory
Keywords: memory overflow, garbage collection
Message-ID: <141@cica.cica.indiana.edu>
Date: 1 Sep 89 17:58:43 GMT
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Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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erbo@mango.ucsb.edu (Eric J. Bowersox) writes:

>I got the infamous "Insufficient memory" error.  

eric, welcome to dbaseIV!

>   is there any way of reclaiming or  "garbage-collecting" that 
>   unused space . . .

you could use the "RELEASE" command to discard those uneeded
memory variables.  ("release all like mem_*" would dust them).

you should also increase your "bucket" size by including a
statement in your config.db file:

bucket = 10

one bucket is 1K of memory.  the above statement increases 
memory allocation by 10K.  the limit is 31K.

hope some of this helps...

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michael regoli
mr@cica.indiana.edu 
regoli@iubacs.bitnet
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