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Is there any tool/utility that I can run to determine
how much resources (percent of kernel) a particular process
is using?? I run system monitor and it just gives
a percentage of the total (100%) but doesnt identify
how much each running process is using..

Can anybody help??
 
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Resources refer to two fixed size 64KB stacks used by various 16 bit
programs and libraries to store pointers and the like. I'm not sure that
you are going to find any utility that will tell you how much of the stack
is used by any one process or library. Instead to solve the problem you
need to reduce the number of running processes and only launch them as and
when required rather than having lots of processes launching each time you
boot your system. Similarly you need to close rather than minimise unused
windows/applications so as to release, as far as is possible, resources
used by the process concerned.

A good place to look to for advice as to which programs need to be run at
startup and those that can be safely disabled, is Pacman's site where he
lists what should definitely be retained and which can be safely removed
from the startup axis (http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm).
Reducing such applications and only starting them when required can free
up significant resources. Note though that before disabling any
application that you make yourself fully aware of its purpose and
understand what the consequences might be, if any, of disabling it at
start up.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mike.maltby@gmail.com


ralbehar <ralbehar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Is there any tool/utility that I can run to determine
> how much resources (percent of kernel) a particular process
> is using?? I run system monitor and it just gives
> a percentage of the total (100%) but doesnt identify
> how much each running process is using..
>
> Can anybody help??
 
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Thanks Mike.. Will check the noted web site..

"Mike M" wrote:

> Resources refer to two fixed size 64KB stacks used by various 16 bit
> programs and libraries to store pointers and the like. I'm not sure that
> you are going to find any utility that will tell you how much of the stack
> is used by any one process or library. Instead to solve the problem you
> need to reduce the number of running processes and only launch them as and
> when required rather than having lots of processes launching each time you
> boot your system. Similarly you need to close rather than minimise unused
> windows/applications so as to release, as far as is possible, resources
> used by the process concerned.
>
> A good place to look to for advice as to which programs need to be run at
> startup and those that can be safely disabled, is Pacman's site where he
> lists what should definitely be retained and which can be safely removed
> from the startup axis (http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm).
> Reducing such applications and only starting them when required can free
> up significant resources. Note though that before disabling any
> application that you make yourself fully aware of its purpose and
> understand what the consequences might be, if any, of disabling it at
> start up.
> --
> Mike Maltby MS-MVP
> mike.maltby@gmail.com
>
>
> ralbehar <ralbehar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there any tool/utility that I can run to determine
> > how much resources (percent of kernel) a particular process
> > is using?? I run system monitor and it just gives
> > a percentage of the total (100%) but doesnt identify
> > how much each running process is using..
> >
> > Can anybody help??
>
>