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I have a particular Windows XP system that shows symptoms very like
those I was used to in Windows 98, when GDI and/or user handles became
short. Applications may silently refuse to start, or refuse to show
menus; toolbars may be missing; occasionally, at these times, odd
crashes. Windows Explorer is affected, it may not show any menus.
Some background: this is a fast PC with 1 GB of memory, and normally
performs excellently. It is used mainly for development in Visual C++
6.0. Office 2003 is used sometimes, and Adobe graphics applications
and Acrobat. Web browsing. That's about it.
I have read something of the catch-all Windows XP concept of "handles"
and them running out around 16,000. I have seen this effect on
machines where I have had, perhaps, 40 IE browser windows open, but
that isn't what's happening here.
Right now a right-click in Windows explorer isn't working on this
machine. I can close an app and things work, but start another one and
it goes bad again, so I am obviously close to some limit. Here is the
data from Task Manager.
Handles 11710
Threads 506
Processes 43
Commit charge (don't know what that is)
Total 382612
Limit 2523420
Peak 643762
Physical memory
Total 1047536
Available 559400
System cache 708708
Kernel memory
Total 111940
Pages 65900
Nonpaged 46040
The frustrating thing is that I have no idea what could be running
out. I'd really appreciate some pointers on "hidden" resources that
could run out (and how to monitor them). I'm going to leave this
machine overnight, so I can try out any suggestions, but I'll need to
reboot it in the morning (and it will take a while to get bad again).
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Aandi Inston quite@dial.pipex.com http://www.quite.com
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I have a particular Windows XP system that shows symptoms very like
those I was used to in Windows 98, when GDI and/or user handles became
short. Applications may silently refuse to start, or refuse to show
menus; toolbars may be missing; occasionally, at these times, odd
crashes. Windows Explorer is affected, it may not show any menus.
Some background: this is a fast PC with 1 GB of memory, and normally
performs excellently. It is used mainly for development in Visual C++
6.0. Office 2003 is used sometimes, and Adobe graphics applications
and Acrobat. Web browsing. That's about it.
I have read something of the catch-all Windows XP concept of "handles"
and them running out around 16,000. I have seen this effect on
machines where I have had, perhaps, 40 IE browser windows open, but
that isn't what's happening here.
Right now a right-click in Windows explorer isn't working on this
machine. I can close an app and things work, but start another one and
it goes bad again, so I am obviously close to some limit. Here is the
data from Task Manager.
Handles 11710
Threads 506
Processes 43
Commit charge (don't know what that is)
Total 382612
Limit 2523420
Peak 643762
Physical memory
Total 1047536
Available 559400
System cache 708708
Kernel memory
Total 111940
Pages 65900
Nonpaged 46040
The frustrating thing is that I have no idea what could be running
out. I'd really appreciate some pointers on "hidden" resources that
could run out (and how to monitor them). I'm going to leave this
machine overnight, so I can try out any suggestions, but I'll need to
reboot it in the morning (and it will take a while to get bad again).
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Aandi Inston quite@dial.pipex.com http://www.quite.com
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