BDE Error $000F, System INITsettings(sharedmemsize, memsize, etc.)
Sam Genovese
windows 95 machines but not windows 98 .
This is an excerpt from the borland website:
Question:. I'm getting BDE Error 000F. What does this mean?
Answer: BDE Error 000F usually indicates that the buffer manager ran out of
memory, though there may be other causes for this error. Increasing the BDE
SHAREDMEMSIZE parameter in BDE Admin may solve the problem, or just delay
the error from occuring.
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One of our customer setup windows 98 on one machine and was unable ti get
the BDE error which was happening on her windows 95 machines. FYI, all our
source code is compiled on windows98 and then installed on windows 95
machines(most of our clients seem reluctant to upgrade their OS to 98). Is
it possible that winodws98 has some memory related routines that helps with
memory management better than windows 95 and does the fact that we compile
our apps on windows 98 probably make it less immune to memory related errors
on windows 95?
SYSTEM INIT settings: On a related note, i was messing with the settings in
the BDE. I wanted to know your opinion on the following:
1)MAXBUFSIZE: What is the negative of setting this too high? You could
theoretically set it to the amount of RAM available on your computer.
2) MAXFILEHANDLES: 5 to 4096. The higher the setting the more your windows
resources get used, but improves performance. How do we determine how high
is enough.
3) MEMSIZE and SHAREDMEMSIZE: These setting are relevant to the BDE error
issue I discussed above. In dejanews, iremember seeing somone from TeamB
give us a formula on how to determine these 2 settings. I dont have it now.
But in general, is it OK to set these as high as we can as long as we follow
the formula? THe formual i think was something lalong the lines of :
MEMSIZE = Total RAm on your PC - 16MB
SHAREDMEMSIZE= 25% of the MEMSIZE
or something close to that.
4)MINBUFSIZE: How do we determine the best setting for this