Hi! i had some troubles with my system running out of memory. After closing outlook, things got better. But now i realise that vc++ takes 50% of my system resources! (that's what the resource meter of win98 says). Is it normal? have you already experimented that? Did you solve it? do i need to reinstalle vc++ (a 8th time)? Would you consider editing your code, and then closing vc++ everytime you want to test it? Is engineering supposed to be dealing mainly with this kind of accessory problems? that's depressing... Gauthier

There isn't a leak: VC++ just uses tons of memory. It will use about 20-30Mb of disk space for a medium sized program with say, 20 500-line files. I'm running on a 120MHz P1 with 32Mb memory. I've had it up for weeks and the memory usage hasn't gotten any more than that. Not worth worrying about. And no, you do not have to reinstall.

damn... i'm afraid you're right. Then I cannot work, check my mails and laze on the web all at the same time... Even more depressed, Gauthier

I'm afraid most all modern IDEs are memory hogs, though you might be able to reduce the load somewhat. The biggest culprits are the latest conveniences, such as code-completion, popup information, HTML-based help, edit-and-continue, cached debug info, class info, and the like. Unfortunately, they also tend to be reasons someone uses an IDE today, but the memory required to keep such vast amounts of info on hand, especially for C/C++, is daunting. Depending on the IDE, some of these features can be disabled. M$' new HTML-help (even VC5 had a form of it) doesn't help, since script-enabled browsers are also memory hogs (Netscape, Mozilla, and IE all make memory disappear - check TaskManager). Try keeping the help off as much as possible. Outlook is also notorious for dimming the lights. Depressing, well, FWIW, you have a lot of company. That's why so many developers surf the computer humour sites (except me, of course! =). Just alternate the lazing and the emails. Cheers