[PROTEL EDA USERS]: Re: What does RSRCMTR.EXE do?

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In a message dated 9/13/00 10:13:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
JENKINSC@PIOS.COM writes:

> I have seen the reosurce issue explode after SP5 of Protel. What is
>  RSRCMTR.EXE and does it help the resource managment?
>  
Windows Resource Meter (Win95, I think also Win98) just camps on the icon bar 
and monitors three separate resource pools. If something gets low, it pops up 
and warns you, giving you a chance to shut down gracefully. If you let 
Windows run completely out of resources, either because of memory leaks in 
certain applications, or general resource hoggishness in certain applications 
very familiar to this list, the system can get wrapped around the axle where 
it wants to pop up an error box to indicate you're out of resources, but it 
can't allocate the resources to generate the box. Then you're hosed. If 
Protel cleaned up the software to be less resource-intensive the issue would 
go away; if they even checked the error indications and handled them 
gracefully when they allocate memory it would help. But for now the best 
solution is to keep RsrcMtr running all the time (it's in my Startup 
directory). When it pops up, you can close Protel and maybe other 
applications as well, and reopen them and keep going. With time I've managed 
to develop a feel for when I can get away with just pressing on and ignoring 
it, but every so often I guess wrong and cause a crash.

Steve Hendrix