clearing the cache

[Robert Brenstein]

>On 8/11/04 5:45 PM, "Chris Sheffield" <cm_sheffield at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>  Does anyone know of a way to flush/clear/destroy the
>>  cache without making a call to "Shutdown"?  I'm using
>>  VXCMD with Revolution.
>
>There is no such way, Chris.
>
>Only shutdown
>
>
>>  I've got a situation where computer memory keeps
>>  filling up and filling up until crashes occur.  I'm
>>  reading fairly large BLOB data from a database, and
>>  the cached data appears to stay in memory, even after
>>  writing the data to disk and closing the cursor on the
>>  database.  Is this normal behavior?
>
>Crash no.
>
>You mean that you see in some way, that RAM of computer is eaten?!
>
>Then this is NOT cache!
>Cache always have fixed size, as you have specify in ValentinaInit().
>
>Hmm, sounds like memory leak.
>But I don't know if it is in YOUR code or in Valentina.
>
>Frankly saying I doubt it is in Valentina.
>

I had once a situation where there was a memory leak as a result of 
some weird interaction between MetaCard and Valentina. I had a field 
in a window that was displaying a log of on-going activities. If 
valentina was off, all was fine. If valentina was on, updating that 
field was leaking memory. I ended up eliminating live updates of log 
fields. Truly strange. The leak was definitely on the MetaCard's side 
but under no other circumstances I managed to reproduce it otherwise 
(and I really tried as I wanted Scott to fix it).

Robert