How can I get my resources back?

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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
 
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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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:|> Or possibly a handle leak. All the same, there is nothing that you can do
:|> really, except contact the software vendor fix the problem.
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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
 
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
 
:|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
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Appreciate your help. Will give it a try.


Best,

Andrew
 
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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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~ Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support
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