RE: visio 2003 is greedy for memory

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From: extremekicks (extremekicks_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:01:04 -0700

"JayEff Land" wrote:

> I find that Visio 2003 is really slow after a couple of operations.
> Let me explain, I am building a database diagram (object relational)
> and each time I am adding a new entity, moving down or up a database
> property or adding a new property it is getting slower and slower.
>
> The memory usage in the task manager is increasing more and more, each
> time I am doing a new operation in my shape. The only way to fixed
> that for now is to save my file and reopen the program. It seems that
> moving a property up and down in the database properties windows is
> high is memory consumption.
> I have a Celeron 1.70 Ghz and 512 MO.
>
> I do not have Visual Studio or an old version of Microsoft Visio
> installed on my system. I have the most recent MDAC installed on my
> computer. I have already re-registered Visio with the command visio
> and I have been running the program in Safe mode but it did not any
> difference.
> The new service pack has not fixed that high memory consumption.
>
> Here a little overview of what is going when I am working with Visio.
> The memory usage goes from 32 000k to 47 000k, just after 20 minutes
> of work. The operations that I am doing are : creating entities,
> moving the entities around, adding new columns in one entity,
> modifying columns name in one entity.
> The memory dumping does not seems to work. My models contains 30
> entites.
>
> Does someone knows a way to fixed that or should I wait for a new SP.
>
> Thanks
>

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