Re: Publisher memory leak?
- From: Jblair <Jblair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 20:11:01 -0800
John, thank you for the guidance. I'm pretty good about the usual disk
maintenance stuff. The swap file is set at default (1.5 GB) . . . I might
bump it up a bit.
What I conclude from your comments is that this may be normal behavior. I
had noted this more often on an older system with just 256MB ram. With the
1GB system I thought that the situation might well be a Publisher bug. If
however it is a "feature" not a bug, I just won't worry about it.
John Blair
"John Inzer" wrote:
> Jblair wrote:
> > We are heavy users of MS Publisher 2003. I note that
> > when a long session includes opening a number of
> > publisher documents, importing sections from one to
> > another, tuning graphics . . . that an error message
> > often appears saying the the "Memory is full."
> >
> > This occurs on a system with 1GB ram, fully up to date
> > Win XP Home running on a six month old Sony Sony system.
> >
> > Each instance of publisher may have as a maximum, a file
> > open of 50-100 mb. Typically no more than two or three
> > instances are open.
> >
> > Any advice . . . other than shut everything down and
> > reboot?
> >
> > John Blair
> ================================
> Closing all other programs, especially virus
> scanners before beginning the heavy editing
> might help.
>
> Doing maintenance on a regular schedule
> can make a difference:
>
> Running Disk Cleanup, Error Checking and
> Defrag on a regular schedule is a good idea.
>
> (310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
> Tool in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312
>
> (315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
> in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
> (check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file
> system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
> recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
> the next time you restart your computer.
> (run error checking repeatedly until it finds
> no errors)
>
> (314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
> Drive Volumes in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848
>
> I run the following freebie several times a
> day to keep unwanted files deleted. I find
> it to be quite useful:
> http://www.ccleaner.com/
>
> Also may help to hide images unless thay are
> absolutely necessary to the current exercise.
> View / Pictures / Hide.
>
> I suspect "heavy editing" includes many many
> changes. Each change is saved in the undo
> stack...this can consume your resources. Not
> to mention that a 50 to 100 MB file can be
> many times that when uncompressed and
> open in your program.
>
> Maybe more ram is a good idea and also it
> may be worth a try to increase the size of your
> paging file:
>
> (308417) HOW TO: Set Performance Options
> in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308417
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
>
>
>
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