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From: abreen@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Alex Breen)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Paradox3.0 'Query can't continue, out of disk space' prob
Message-ID: <1991May3.212215.11714@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 21:22:15 GMT
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pazandak@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Paul Pazandak) writes:



>I got this message on an AT or 286 with 640k, and 55k memleft.  The
>machine is the server (too) on an Lantastic Net.

>Anyway, I have 23 MB free, and the tables are about 3 MB each - although I trimmed one
>down to 1MB and the other to 800k, and still the same problem!

>I assume that RAM is actually the culprit????  Any thoughts anyone?

>Thanks.

One of the biggest problems with Paradox 3.0 is how it handles memory.  I 
struggled with this for months.  From your description, it appears that you 
have enough hard disk space.  It is recomended that you have twice as much 
free disk space as the size of your tables.  Question... is 55k memleft before
you do the table query?  If it is, you are probably running out of RAM.  I 
came across this often.  I never was able to fix this problem, even after I 
added addtional expanded memory to the computer.  However Paradox 3.5 is able
to use expanded memory and it works excellantly.

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				Alexander Breen
				abreen@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
 				Agricultural Engineering Department