There is a lot of confusion and several different explanations of what
"system resources" actually mean lately on this list. Let me jump into the
fray and dish out some highly technical and accurate info on what System
Resources actually stands for.

  SYSTEM RESOURCES
  ----------------

  Since there are people on the Internet that are more talented in
writing, I'll note the basics here and leave the rest to your Internet
browser.

  System resources are 3 groups:

  1) Areas of memory used for input (USER.EXE), aka User memory
  2) Areas of memory used for UI elements' display (GDI.EXE), aka GDI
memory
  3) Areas of memory used for filesystem, other OS tasks, aka System
Resources proper.

  All windows and open programs consume part of those resources.
Typically, an open app consumes 5-8% of each, and every child-window
1-3%). If any of the resources go below 10-15% the system will probably
crash (for example low GDI memory will show some artifacts on the screen:
all font will revert to System, screen won't update, the gradient bar
disappears, and finally the BSOD).

  To improve the speed (these 3 are very critical and often-used parts of
the OS) these areas are limited to 64K in size (since Intel CPU can
address faster within a 64k segment). In this way, the actual size of RAM
(be it 32, 128 or 512 Mbytes) *** DOES NOT AFFECT *** the %age of free
system resources.                 ---------------

  More info : http://www.infinisource.com/techfiles/win-resources.html
  ---------



  (by the way: this link is the first one (!) in Google results for this
query:

"system resources" windows "what is"

  the moral: learn how to make the right queries -- and no computer
problem will be an enigma to you).


Yours,

<> Max Timchenko [MaxVT]
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On Thu, 24 May 2001, Rick Lindstrom wrote:

> At 11:44 PM 5/23/2001 -0400, jack wrote:
> >OK, but please explain what "system resources" are. I've tried to
> >research this question to no avail.

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