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To: wily who wrote (11330)	9/25/2000 8:59:35 PM
From: Moving Sphere	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14778

OK, here is my report for today... After system booted up and Mytrack quote and chart pages were loaded up, system resources showed a 35% free. Surprisingly, the live data feed didn't really take up that much resources or CPU time. Thru out the whole trading hours, CPU had an idle of 70% (LT% as well). Thus, this eliminated the cpu fault for not being able to handle the live feed data. However, there were occasion of 100% CPU usage but that was because a new program was loaded. After Netscape browser was loaded up, system resources was reduced to about 20% free. CPU usuage was still pretty low. Again, I was able to open more than one Netscape browser in this trial. At this point, I was scratching my head wondering why I couldn't repeat my "hanging" of the system with my resources meter and the Taskinfo2000 running. At this point, I then realized there was a program I forgot to mentioned previously and also opened during market trading hours. This was a order processing program that I executed and run in the minimized mode for my commodity trading. Yes, this particular commodity broker I used do not use browser based order system but an independent executable program. Guess what? The moment I opened this program, the system resources immediately dropped to a dangerously low 7% free and I got a warning grey color window showing me that my resources were 90% used and was in danger of being "hang". This warning message was probably come from the resource meter program because I never saw it before. Seemed like the culprit has been found. But the interesting part was that all the time, the CPU usuage was only about 30% average even though the resources was showing a 7% free. I added up the "InMem KB" column under the Taskinfo2000 program and it totaled about 56K. However, when I added up the "Total KB" column, I totaled about 133K. What did that mean? Does it mean that the system had assigned 133K of internal RAM to all existing programs running at the time? Did this 133K constitute the 93% usuage of resources? What did system resources really mean in this case anyway? Does it mean memory? Will more memory resolve this? Or is this a case of lousy resource management in Win98 part? If this is the case, perhaps Win2000 will resolve my problem? Because the CPU only have a 30% average usuage, I guess a dual processors will not be of any benefit to resolve my resource limitation problem. Does anyone here have a better analysis of what was happening to my system? I'll appreciate all feedbacks here. Thank you all for the attention. ~~~MSphere