Clayton Macleod wrote:
actually, no, task manager doesn't tell you exactly what you think it is telling you. If MS didn't purge their beta newsgroups after the end of their betas I could find a quote for you. (dammit) I'm not sure if a similar explanation is in any of their public docs or not. I'll take a look in the morning, day off with nothing planned. (well, actually, putting off getting under the car and getting all greasy, haha)
The discussions on MSDN are not important here, as the process scheduler was made to report accurately for SP2(XP) and SP1(2k3). Amoung other things this is a requirement for DEP internals. Most of these docs can be found through a partner login. Sadly, the only public docs I've found so far are the exact same as you have just sent. The latter of which is an old bug we used to suffer frequently on our Citrix mainframes. (Ah, the reason he's been screwing with process and memory management!). -- http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/29931.asp http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/DepKit/3d3b3c16-c901-46de-8485-166a819af3ad.mspx http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/q184419/ N.B. Did ya miss MS's other two support sites? (just joking, I _love_ the way they make us trawl 5 different places for info ;-). -- None of these negate what I have said. In fact all they do is negate what you said about never changing from defaults, as here you will find MS suggesting that people look at these articles for their solutions (having been on the phone for hours to MS waiting for some id-10t (it's been a while) to point me to Q184419, despite being outdated and useless to the problems we ever encounter on the citrix platforms. The techs are never as good as the consultants. :-( Back to the point in hand, setting this option can reduce paging in certain instances where the data paged is stored in driver space - this is particularly more common in certian development scnearios. You CAN analyse these effects by careful observation of kernel and process running times, along with changes in memory deltas and other less important varaibles. Generally you will need a program in ring 0 to properly observe these things though, and never forget that everything you do on the system affects the system. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
