Re: windows won't run programs/ handle problem
From: C.Joseph Drayton (kalek1_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 09/18/04
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:12:22 -0600
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Hi Earl,
Just wondering why you would have 6 instances of Firefox open.
Couldn't you just use the tabs? I use Mozilla v1.7, and I have had as
many as 20 tabs open with no problem.
Ciao . . . C.Joseph
That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
~ He esteems too lightly
e wrote:
|Folks,
|
|So here is the issue. When I open "too many" programs under Windows,
I stop
|being able to run new programs. Or they will open, and some of the
|subwindows will fail to create (most often the menubar.) For
example, this
|most often happens with ie.
|http://mywebspace.wisc.edu/elhathaw/web/windows%20screwup%2000.jpg
|
|
|With firefox, various windows will fail to create; most often the main
|window.
http://mywebspace.wisc.edu/elhathaw/web/windows%20screwup%2002.jpg
|This is with 10 copies of ie, a couple other apps, and 6 firefox windows
|open. I loaded anandtech but nothing displays because the main window
failed
|to create. I also clicked on file in the menubar but the menu doesn't
|appear. See that the main window is grey instead of white as it ought
to be.
|
|Other programs, such as mspaint, will simply not open and sound the
generic
|"system beep." I also lose the ability to display the start menu, or to
|display submenus of the start menu. Or to see the alt-tab dialog box.
|
|I have no idea what is wrong. I've checked the event viewer and nothing
|shows up. The laptop has plenty of free memory and free disk space.
I've run
|adaware and not found anything, and the issue happens with programs
besides
|ie. This happened under SP1 and happens under SP2. Also, this
behaviour is
|unaffected by how long the computer has been up; I can open enough
programs
|and trigger this right after rebooting if I wish. I've updated the
video
|card drivers to the most recent release from dell (dated 6/10/2004);
I even
|tried disabling video acceleration and the only thing that happens is
video
|playback unwatcheable ;)
|
|This occurs with ~20,000 handles, 600 threads and 70 processes; there is
| >200MB of free physical memory and a commit charge of 440/1250. IOW,
the
|system is not being pushed. In fact, any time the computer
approaches 20K
|handles (net, not for any individual process) this behaviour starts
|occurring.
|
|Laptop:
|Dell 600m running WinXP Home SP2, SP1 installed by Dell, SP2 by me
|512MB RAM
|768 MB swap file
|10GB free disk space
|1 user
|
|Thanks for any ideas.
|
|earl
|
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