Guest tshad Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 On XP SP2, I typically have quite a few windows open and every now and then run out of memory. I was opening an email from outlook and got the error message. I closed my Sql Server Management Studio program that had just opened a table with 3000 records. I was able then to open the email fine. But when I looked at my Windows Task Manager: It showed: Comment Charge(k) Total 1461856 Threads 4553192 Peak 1674268 I thought that Peak showed what the most memory I had used at any one time and it was fine if less than the Limit (4553192). My peak is way below that. Am I mistaken here? Thanks, Tom
Guest AJR Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 Re: Out of memory Task Manager actually is not very sophisticated for troubleshooting - consider Process Explorer (Microsoft site). The "Out of Memory" message is generated when a program/utility does not release resources, not correctly closed or is still running in background - Task Manager may or may not provide information - under processes "svchost" may indicate high CPU use but does not identify the specific culprit.usually refers to virtual memory. "tshad" <tshad@dslextreme.com> wrote in message news:u%23RxFWj0IHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > On XP SP2, I typically have quite a few windows open and every now and > then run out of memory. > > I was opening an email from outlook and got the error message. I closed > my Sql Server Management Studio program that had just opened a table with > 3000 records. I was able then to open the email fine. > > But when I looked at my Windows Task Manager: > > It showed: > > Comment Charge(k) > Total 1461856 > Threads 4553192 > Peak 1674268 > > I thought that Peak showed what the most memory I had used at any one time > and it was fine if less than the Limit (4553192). My peak is way below > that. > > Am I mistaken here? > > Thanks, > > Tom >
Guest tshad Posted June 19, 2008 Posted June 19, 2008 Re: Out of memory "AJR" <ajrjdr@comcast.net> wrote in message news:e9BsOpk0IHA.3680@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Task Manager actually is not very sophisticated for troubleshooting - > consider Process Explorer (Microsoft site). > The "Out of Memory" message is generated when a program/utility does not > release resources, not correctly closed or is still running in > background - Task Manager may or may not provide information - under > processes "svchost" may indicate high CPU use but does not identify the > specific culprit.usually refers to virtual memory. > > I have that and it works well for looking at different services. But I am trying to look at a way to see what my max memory is, what I am using and what is the max I used, which is what those numbers were supposed to tell me. I think that Process explorer only shows you what you have now. Thanks, Tom > > "tshad" <tshad@dslextreme.com> wrote in message > news:u%23RxFWj0IHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> On XP SP2, I typically have quite a few windows open and every now and >> then run out of memory. >> >> I was opening an email from outlook and got the error message. I closed >> my Sql Server Management Studio program that had just opened a table with >> 3000 records. I was able then to open the email fine. >> >> But when I looked at my Windows Task Manager: >> >> It showed: >> >> Comment Charge(k) >> Total 1461856 >> Threads 4553192 >> Peak 1674268 >> >> I thought that Peak showed what the most memory I had used at any one >> time and it was fine if less than the Limit (4553192). My peak is way >> below that. >> >> Am I mistaken here? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tom >> > >
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