visio 2003 is greedy for memory

[JayEff Land]

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.

The new service pack has not fixed that high memory consumption. Does
someone knows a way to fixed that or should I wait for a new SP.

Thanks

 

[Damodar Gupta]

Hi,

To help on this issue, I need some more information like: a) do you have
Visual studio installed on this system? b) do you have multiple versions
of Visio? c) What happens if you run visio in safe mode?

You may try the following.
a) re-register with the command visio /r
b) install the latest version of MDAC.

I look forward for the status and information.

Thank you
Damodar

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[JayEff Land]

Hi,

To help on this issue, I need some more information like: a) do you have
Visual studio installed on this system? b) do you have multiple versions
of Visio? c) What happens if you run visio in safe mode?

You may try the following.
a) re-register with the command visio /r
b) install the latest version of MDAC.

I look forward for the status and information.

Thank you
Damodar

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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Hi,
Here are the answers to your questions.
a)Do you have Visual studio installed on this system?
Answer : No, I only have Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Beta.
b)Do you have multiple versions of Visio?
Answer: No.
c)What happens if you run visio in safe mode?
Anser : The same behavior as in normal mode.

I have tried your first option (vision /r) and it did not made any
differences. I have tried to installed the latest MDAC which is
version 2.8 but when I started the installation of the program it is
saying that all of its features are currently part of Windows.

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.

I hope you have an idea of what is going on and thanks a lot for your
time.

Jayeff