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To: Qiang Lin who wrote (9395)	4/30/1998 11:10:00 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 64865

Qiang, being unemotional about languages and OS's, I'd like to point out If it is a simple application, it may not use all NT Server features so that the NT Server may run fine. However, our application uses the Oracle Symmetric Replication to talk with more than 20 - 30 NT servers at the same time. If you are a system administrator, you can monitor the server memory usage. Then, you will notice that the memory usage goes up with time, very scary. Oracle reps at our project are trying to figure out what is the cause since they did not see these symptoms in Unix/Sun environment. I have to assume that Oracle Symmetric Replication and Oracle itself is written in fairly portable C/C++. There will be OS platform specific code. It is equally as possible that there is Oracle platform specific code at fault. Your post seems to suggest that it must be an NT centric issue. I agree that "manual garbage collection" is a big and unwelcome task in C/C++. Its equally bad on UNIX as it is on MVS or NT.