Thing to watch for is 2 (or more) applications or (nastier) services that are getting large numbers in the delta, 'cos that usually means they are like a group of 2 year olds each with a grip on the limb of a toy lots of to- and fro'ing, but no-one gets to use the thing
Or in the PC case no-one gets enough of the real memory for long enough to get on and finish the job Unless it exceeds the system limits, It doesn't really matter about high usage from 1 application But it does matter if the combined 'wants' exceed the available resources. And - if it's real memory that's wanted by two applications, then you may not see lots of usage by the 'naughty' thread, as the OS will be using most of the IO throughput available to keep swapping stuff in and out of the pagefile, and the applications show very little cpu used as they keep having to rest while the OS gets another page of data in for them, so they can ask for yet another page. That's why I keep the Delta values on the display. JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eve Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:25 PM Subject: Re: Virtual Memory error > Thanks, Carl and James. This is great. I didn't know that you could add > those extra columns to Task Manager. > > Here are my readings: > > Commit Charge: > Total 437,296 > Limit 2,043,568 > Peak 440,916 > > Physical Memory: > Total 1,047,924 > Available 478216 > System Cache 480,728 > > As for processes, I think the problem must be my anti-spy stuff. Eudora is > a biggie, but I've been using it for years. What's new on this computer is > the McAfee suite, which came with it. That takes up 83,500 in the VM > column. Counterspy takes up almost 50,000. Yahoo desktop search is next in > line with 21,000. SpySweeper comes in at around 14,000. > > I can't do without Eudora. I can do without having YDS open, but that means > that when you need it it isn't indexed. I guess I have too much anti-spy > stuff, but I had a spyware catastrophe last year and it took three > different programs to sort it out. La la. > > Maybe I'll take off Counterspy and just run it when I need a scan. At least > I'll try it, and see if the problem resolves. I don't like the McAfee suite > very much. Oh, well. > > Thanks again. This was extremely helpful. > > -- Eve > > > > -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
