Resource meter - ?

[Steve]

How do I get that little resource meter to show up on the taskbar (the
box with the green lines, that shows system, user, GDI resources
available). Thanks!

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Ctrl-Alt-Del - minimise.

 

[Steve]

How do I get that little resource meter to show up on the taskbar (the
box with the green lines, that shows system, user, GDI resources
available). Thanks!

Scratch this, just found some web info indicating that it's not needed
under XP. Does that mean (in theory, at least) that you could run an
unlimited number of programs/windows at the same time without a
problem?

 

[Ken Blake]

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How do I get that little resource meter to show up on the taskbar (the
box with the green lines, that shows system, user, GDI resources
available). Thanks!

It doesn't exist. The term System Resources, in Windows 9x and
Me, referred to a particular data structure that doesn't exist in
Windows XP.

That's one of XP's many improvements over 9X. There are no System
Resources to run out of or to be concerned with.

 

[Ron Martell]

Scratch this, just found some web info indicating that it's not needed
under XP. Does that mean (in theory, at least) that you could run an
unlimited number of programs/windows at the same time without a
problem?

Not unlimited, but certainly more than Windows 95/98/Me would be able
to handle without running into a "system resources" crunch.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[Steve]

Not unlimited, but certainly more than Windows 95/98/Me would be able
to handle without running into a "system resources" crunch.

What's the equivalent crunch with XP? Any way to tell if there are
too many programs open, other than maybe a slowdown?

 

[Ron Martell]

What's the equivalent crunch with XP? Any way to tell if there are
too many programs open, other than maybe a slowdown?

Haven't found one yet, except for the system slowing down as it runs
out of physical memory and starts using the paging file extensively
with lots of swapping back and forth between RAM and the paging file.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[David]

Not true Ken. I regularly run out of resources under XP
Home unless I clean up rogue entries on the disk. See my
post of the 13th ('Loss of resources') and my new one of
the 18th ('Resource meter')

 

[R. McCarty]

Run Task Manager, Performance & Click "View Kernel
Times". Minimize Taskmgr and you will get a small icon
showing system loading. As far as I know that is the only
real-time monitoring of XP's performance.

 

[Ron Martell]

Not true Ken. I regularly run out of resources under XP
Home unless I clean up rogue entries on the disk. See my
post of the 13th ('Loss of resources') and my new one of
the 18th ('Resource meter')

It is true that Windows XP uses the term "system resources".

However the meaning and context of this term is completely different
from what it was in Windows 95/98/Me where it specifically referred to
the operating system resource heaps especially the two 64KB heaps that
were used to provide backwards compatibilty with legacy applications.

In Windows XP the term seems to apply more to the combination of CPU
usage and RAM usage


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[David]

Yes Ron, under '95/98 etc. it would be a problem opening
too many windows due to the 64k heap constraints. I just
never expected a similar situation under XP. The scenario
is the same - I boot, I load IE, I load Outlook Express,
I load something else and - bang - errors reporting not
enough system resources to do it or the window pops up
with no detail in it (just like windows under 98 when you
get below about 12% of available resources). This is
crazy. What resources am I short of? I have 1Gb RAM and
the CPU utilisation indicates 2%. The only way to get
back to normality is to schedule a Chkdsk then re-boot
every time. It appears to be something to do with old
security descriptors and indexes left on the disk at
shutdown but I cannot understand how that could possibly
be the cause - it's relly bugging me now.

Thanks for your input all the same.

David

 

[Ron Martell]

Yes Ron, under '95/98 etc. it would be a problem opening
too many windows due to the 64k heap constraints. I just
never expected a similar situation under XP. The scenario
is the same - I boot, I load IE, I load Outlook Express,
I load something else and - bang - errors reporting not
enough system resources to do it or the window pops up
with no detail in it (just like windows under 98 when you
get below about 12% of available resources). This is
crazy. What resources am I short of? I have 1Gb RAM and
the CPU utilisation indicates 2%. The only way to get
back to normality is to schedule a Chkdsk then re-boot
every time. It appears to be something to do with old
security descriptors and indexes left on the disk at
shutdown but I cannot understand how that could possibly
be the cause - it's relly bugging me now.

Thanks for your input all the same.

The System Resources messages you get with Windows XP have absolutely
nothing to do with Resource Heap usage. That much I am fairly
confident about.

The Microsoft documents that I have researched with respect to System
Resources and Windows XP all use that term in the context of CPU usage
and/or RAM usage.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."