How can I get my resources back?

[Andrew J. Rozsa]

I have 512 MB RAM, 800 MHz CPU from Dell that has worked perfectly for
3 years. Not ready to get rid of it, yet.

Have been running into a strange problem. I have a specific piece of
software that, because it handles a tremendous number of variables,
sucks up the resources. The longer it stays on, the fewer resources
remain available for the other programs. Eventually it starts to
crawl, at which point I shut it down, usually once a day. With Win 2K
Pro I shouldn't have to. Right?

After the program is shut down, if it has been on for a long time, I
have to re-boot. Sometimes, I just plainly cannot. I looked at the CPU
resources and, by then, IEplorer owns 99% of them. If I shut the
process down I am looking for trouble. So, I wait and eventually the
system does reboot (many, many minutes later) and the hassle starts
all over again. I re-installed 2K Pro SP4 only a month ago. Clean.

Can anyone offer an insight and perhaps a fix for this?


Best,

Andrew

 

[Bob I]

Wild guess, is that said software has a memory leak. See if vendor will
fix the problem.

 

[Jason Hall [MSFT]]

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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:28:08 -0500
From: Bob I <[email protected]>

Wild guess, is that said software has a memory leak. See if vendor will
fix the problem.

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Or possibly a handle leak. All the same, there is nothing that you can do
really, except contact the software vendor.

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[Andrew J. Rozsa]

:|> Or possibly a handle leak. All the same, there is nothing that you can do
:|> really, except contact the software vendor fix the problem.

Not fixable - resources are being used by the variables that being
manipulated by the program.

I was asking about a means to have IE/WE releasse the handles, or some
utility that "recovers" or manages resources.


Best,

Andrew

 

[CLW]

Try
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/maxmem.htm

 

[George Hester]

You can always try to defrag your memory and see if that brings your system back in some sense. In a vbs file put this:

'memory.vbs
MyString = Space(128000000)

Then you run this like so (assuming on the C drive)

C:>cscript memory.vbs

 

[Andrew J. Rozsa]

:|Try
:|http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/maxmem.htm
:|

Thank you.


Best,

Andrew

 

[Andrew J. Rozsa]

:|You can always try to defrag your memory and see if that brings your system back in some sense. In a vbs file put this:
:|
:|'memory.vbs
:|MyString = Space(128000000)
:|
:|Then you run this like so (assuming on the C drive)
:|
:|C:>cscript memory.vbs

Appreciate your help. Will give it a try.


Best,

Andrew

 

[Jason Hall [MSFT]]

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From: Andrew J. Rozsa <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general
Subject: Re: How can I get my resources back?
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 10:09:15 -0500



Appreciate your help. Will give it a try.

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First of all, we need to clearly determine what the resource issue is.
Running a Performance Monitor log will show us if there is a handle and/or
memory issue here. You can defrag your memory all you want, or run a
"maxmem" utility, but this will not free memory, only move it around.

I don't think that there is a way to "take" handles and/or memory away from
a process, except by closing it.

In your original post you said this:
"I looked at the CPUresources and, by then, IEplorer owns 99% of them. If I
shut the process down I am looking for trouble."
I am not sure exactly how this fits in. Does IE have high CPU the entire
time? Only sometimes? Does it gradually increase?



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[Andrew J. Rozsa]

:|Try
:|http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/maxmem.htm

Thanks. Did. It works well.

Appreciate the reply.


Best,

Andrew