Sorry, forgot to check the notify box.
@rgdot:
Yeah, I've had that happen, but not the case in this particular instance.
@
mouser,
et. al.,
There's a difference between
reproducible and
recurring. When this happens, I cannot run anything new, and most often cannot bring to the fore anything idling. Have a couple of gadgets running, one of which shows CPU and RAM usage, another which shows top
n processes (in my case, ten (10)). There's no consistent pattern there. I have checked the Process Monitor gadget against both Task Manager and Sysinternals, all of which stay in agreement.
But I cannot start another process/program when this arises. And when I try to shut down/reboot through another gadget, the error message is:
"C:\Windows\system32\shutdown.exe
Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service." If I try to restart/shutdown via the standard menu, nothing happens - no messages, no results, just a system on idle.
Once in a while I get a repeating series of error messages on the Intel (15.6" screen) with the window title of "Fail" (typical developer arrogance!) with the message body of:
cpu: -1
core: 0
thread: 0
Packages: 1
Cores per package: 2
Threads per package: 2.
Haven't seen the "insufficient thread" message come up lately so as to quote it, but it has shown on both machines from time to time.
Once this happens on either machine, it contaminates (?) the other. The only resolution is a BRS restart (well-l-l, the Intel box has a chrome switch and the AMD box a black one
).
Side note: one of the systems I worked on early in my "career" had a red start switch and a green stop switch: those hardware designers may have been smarter than any of us knew at the time
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Normally CPU is ~20% usage, and RAM less than 60% usage. There are variations, but those numbers seem to be pretty much the top for each area.
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, although usually Win7 will run almost anything that 2003 will run. 
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! Not something I'd run across before, but there's definitely a use for it, 'specially here and now.
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hours, often less. The system quits working. It tells me it's out of system resources. Or it tell me there's no thread available (?!?). I have to power off with the hardware switch. What's more, now the 15.6" box has the same problem! The contagion made me think of course, of malware, but every tool I have says that's not an issue. Problematic, at best, but I'm reasonably reassured 
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