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

[Susan Scott <SusanS@Phonon.com>]

Yes, I use the task manager frequently to see what's going on and to end
hung applications but as Mr. Lomax pointed out it doesn't do what I would
like as far as a warning is concerned. Since I am not crashing very often
now (I must be using Protel more intelligently as I get used to it) I will
just forget about the resource warning and go on as usual. This forum is
great. Thanks all for your inputs. To be trite 'You learn something new
every day'.
Susan

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:marjan@vom.com]
		Sent:	Thursday, September 14, 2000 19:05
		To:	Multiple recipients of list proteledausers
		Subject:	RE: [PROTEL EDA USERS]:  Re: What does
RSRCMTR.EXE do?

		At 03:25 PM 9/14/00 -0700, Bruce  Walter wrote:
		>While it is true that this is not necessary on NT/2000, I
have it in my
		>startup folder (minimized) and find it handy.
		>
		>It is winnt\system32\taskmgr.exe - it is also available by
hitting
		>ctrl-alt-del and clicking 'task manager'.
		>
		>I use it to monitor CPU usage, virtual memory, etc.  I
occasionally use it
		>to close stuck applications, as well as see who is using
all the CPU time,
		>etc.

		This is not the "resource meter" which was being discussed.
It's the task 
		manager, which is a different animal. In W98, the Resource
Monitor watches 
		System Resources, User Resources, and GDI Resources. These
are different 
		from "CPU usage" and "virtual memory." The Resource Meter
does not monitor 
		these. It displays a little icon on the Taskbar with a rough
chart of 
		resource usage, with various levels of green; when it is
down to the lowest 
		level, the color turns yellow, and it turns red as your
system is about to 
		go into a coma. Shutting down almost anything quickly may
avoid this....

		In W98, the Task Manager is also invoked with ctrl-alt-del.
It's usage is 
		pretty much limited, as far as I know, to showing what tasks
are running, 
		if any of them are not responding, and attempting, at least,
to shut one of 
		them down, or to shut down the whole system and either
reboot or power 
		down. I have Norton Utilities installed, and this adds an
Antifreeze 
		function to the Task Manager.

		marjan@vom.com
		Abdulrahman Lomax
		P.O. Box 690
		El Verano, CA 95433



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