Commit charge windows xp

My next stop was the PyWin32 mailing list where Mark Hammond informed me of the win32pdh and win32pdhutil modules. These expose performance counters, but I couldn't find a way to use it to get this information either. Fortunately, I found an old post on the sysinternals forum that gave me a clue.

Here is what it said:. I asked Mr. Hammond if that meant that I would need to use ctypes since the NtQuerySystemInformation class isn't exposed by PyWin32 and he said "probably". Learn more. Asked 6 years, 11 months ago. Active 6 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 3k times. Improve this question. It is not clear for me. If you create a file. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Quick access. Search related threads.

Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Server General Forum. Sign in to vote. I have questions about memory and it's named in task manager. For expl - "total commit charge". What is it? Friday, July 3, PM. Hi, In short, my understanding is Virtual Memory is combined with Physical Memory and page files on disk.

Committed Memory, also called committed virtual memory, is used or allocated Virtual Memory. The amount of committed virtual memory for all the active processes is called the current commit charge. When a process commits a region of virtual memory, the operating system guarantees that it can maintain all the data the process stores in the memory either in physical memory or on disk. That means that a process can run up against another limit: the commit limit.

I suggest reading the following article, especially the "Committed Memory" section. Do you have to terminate processes often? Which ones? If your system was slow before you took it to the shop, was fast thereafter for a short time, and then slowed down again, it seems as if you have not been practicing " safe hex " over the past 3 or 4 months.

MVP Malke has the following excellent standard advice for slow computers. Check out the links. Or tell you? How do I update my hardware drivers? How do I uninstall a suspected Service Pack? It appears that all BOOT. The programs I am using, like malware and spybot are ones that my computer guy put on my computer when he cleaned it up in April, I think.

So, are they any processes that MUST be running? Is that a better question? I rarely delete or stop a program in this manner. Are the links you included in the grey area what you mean?

Booting into safe mode means the PC boots up with minimal fail safe drivers and background programs not starting, eg your anti-virus program and any other programs you see in the task bar. Processes: What is running depends what software you have installed. If you google search the process name usually you will get some explanation as to what created it. Often programs that auto start with win show an icon in the task bar, rt clicking that icon will often give an option list, one of which maybe to not auto-start with win.

But only you can decide wether to prevent the auto start, or whether its something you need. Do NOT update drivers via MSupdate, As a general rule do not update drivers unless its required to fix a specific problem with hardware, or that driver gives greater funcionality. Service Pack: They are critical updates. You seem to be contradicting yourself in your last two paragraphs.

You caution against updating drivers and then you turn around and say that old drivers can cause service pack update failures. Would I just go to the emachines site and search for driver updates? If it finds a problem, HOW do you fix the problem? I cannot help what taskmanager "seems" to do for me. I just know how it appears to act.

This statement does not make sense to me. Do I have too much? Do I have too little? What information do I need to provide in order to help us both answer these last questions? I appreciate all this help and all these prompt and lengthy answers. Looking forward to the next one, so I can understand what is going on.