Quoting Alistair George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ahem, resource meters are not all that they are cracked up to be either.
> Have you tried to write one? There are so many variances between machines
> that it takes a whole lotta lovin to get them right. I have written one
> which works 'reasonably' well for my ProRem software. It never comes up on
> the Main PC even if its memory drops down to hundreds of K, but on the
> Notebook, if you sneeze at it, it changes colour.
Resources (GDI etc) have nothing to do with the amount of memory you have in
your computer. Windows allocates a fixed area of memory for resource
allocation. Increasing the amount of memory installed in your computer has no
effect on the size of the resource heaps. Nor is the amount of free memory that
is showing at any one time, relevant, since Windows manages this effectively
using virtual memory (the swap file).
> Thats sort of why I mentioned the Ramboost program, if for nothing else, it
> gives a very good indicator of what is going on with system RAM.
But it doesn't look at resource allocation.
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