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

[Susan Scott <SusanS@Phonon.com>]

We are running Windows NT here and we don't have the file mentioned below on
our computers or on our install CD. It seems that if you are running NT this
tool is unavailable. Is that true?

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	HxEngr@aol.com [mailto:HxEngr@aol.com]
		Sent:	Wednesday, September 13, 2000 11:55
		To:	Multiple recipients of list proteledausers
		Subject:	[PROTEL EDA USERS]:  Re: What does
RSRCMTR.EXE do?

		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



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