cGarbageCollector Class

[raveens]

Hi

Someone might find this useful - a Garbage Collector to free up memory by destroying all Inactive Deferred Views.

Problem we have is that, after 3-8 hours of using a WinApp the user may have opened a bunch of views /reports that are no longer active. But these are still consuming resources and more importantly memory (RAM).

In a shared environment (i.e. Remote Desktop Server) this can be expensive and tends to slow down the server/environment.

The cGarbageCollector seeks out these inactive views and destroys them - freeing up resources. These views will and can be re-created again as per normal, if the user needs them again.

Attached is the cGarbageCollector.pkg + CollectGarbage.vw to test/execute the Garbage Collector (just drop it in the Order Entry WS)

Usage:

  Object oClientArea is a ClientArea
    ...
    Object oGarbageCollector is a cGarbageCollector
      Move (Self) to ghoGarbageCollector
    End_Object
    ...
  End_Object


  Send DoGarbageCollection of ghoGarbageCollector

Happy 2023 !!!