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Re: mlcad.log files filling my disk
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Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:06:35 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Kerry Raymond writes:
> I downloaded MLCAD on the weekend and have been trying to build my first model.
> All seemed to be going well, but gradually the program started running very
> slowly. At first I just assumed that as my model got larger, the program got
> slower (and my laptop was built for weight not for speed).
> 
> Then a message flashed onto the screen saying Out Of Memory, then there was an
> error message about C: being full, and then everything went dead and I could
> not reboot. Having rebooted from a boot disk in my floppy drive (having first
> had to find an external floppy drive -- my laptop being built for weight and
> not for floppy-reading), I found the problem with the C: drive was a massive
> (gigabytes) MLCAD.LOG file and another very large MLCAD.OLD file. Both of them
> appeared to be full of error messages, relating to the heap. In my enthuasiasm
> to get my laptop rebooted, I just deleted the files, so I don't have the detail
> of the error messages unfortunately.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice on what caused the problem, how to prevent the
> problem, etc? Could the problem be the size of my model? How big is too big?
> 
> Kerry
> 
> --
> ============
> Kerry Raymond
> kerry@dstc.edu.au
> Proud to be LUGNET Member 599
> www.lugnet.com/people/members/?m=599

I have same config as you (win98se+64Mo).
For me, the problem only occur with MLCad v2.12
I have no problem with MLCad v2.11
Try to get v2.11

Best luck,

Damien



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