Commit Charge

[Guest]

What is "Commit Charge" as shown in the Windows Task Manager "Performance" tab
My computer has been freezing up lately and I have noticed that it occurs when the commit charge is very high on the graph. I have checked my hard drive (Western Digital Diagnostics) and tried checking my memory. They all seem to be working fine
Any suggestions as to what I need to do to stop these freezes?
I am going to buy more memory in a couple of weeks to see if this helps, but is there something else that I should look into
I currently only have 256MB memory.

 

[Chris Lanier]

Hi, Open the Task Manager and from its toolbar select "Help".
Then type "Commit Charge". This will tell you all.

What is "Commit Charge" as shown in the Windows Task Manager "Performance" tab.
My computer has been freezing up lately and I have noticed that it occurs

when the commit charge is very high on the graph. I have checked my hard
drive (Western Digital Diagnostics) and tried checking my memory. They all
seem to be working fine.

Any suggestions as to what I need to do to stop these freezes?
I am going to buy more memory in a couple of weeks to see if this helps,

but is there something else that I should look into?

 

[Guest]

Tried that
"Memory allocated to programs and the operating system. Because of memory copied to the paging file, called virtual memory, the value listed under Peak may exceed the maximum physical memory. The value for Total is the same as that depicted in the Page File Usage History graph.

This tells me nothing about what is causing the problem. It alsp refers me to definition of a paging file
"Graph depicting the amount of page file used over time. The sampling displayed in the graph depends on the value you select for the Update Speed on the View menu.

This does not help to determine the cause of what is causing the computer to hang when I click on anything

I have a dual boot system set up on seperate hard drives and when I boot to W2000 I don't have the hanging problem and files located on the drive with WXP are quickly accessable when operating under W2000

I maintained W2000 on a seperate drive because of previous bad experiences with windows newest latest qreatest systems.(you know the blue screen W95, W98 and then the new improved WME and so on and so on...

----- Chris Lanier wrote: ----

Hi, Open the Task Manager and from its toolbar select "Help"
Then type "Commit Charge". This will tell you all

What is "Commit Charge" as shown in the Windows Task Manager "Performance tab
My computer has been freezing up lately and I have noticed that it occur

when the commit charge is very high on the graph. I have checked my har
drive (Western Digital Diagnostics) and tried checking my memory. They al
seem to be working fine

Any suggestions as to what I need to do to stop these freezes
I am going to buy more memory in a couple of weeks to see if this helps

but is there something else that I should look into

 

[Grant]

What is "Commit Charge" as shown in the Windows Task Manager "Performance" tab.
My computer has been freezing up lately and I have noticed that it occurs when

the commit charge is very high on the graph. I have checked my hard drive
(Western Digital Diagnostics) and tried checking my memory. They all seem to be
working fine.

Any suggestions as to what I need to do to stop these freezes?
I am going to buy more memory in a couple of weeks to see if this helps, but

is there something else that I should look into?

I currently only have 256MB memory.

Is your hard drive going like crazy when it freezes? The light either on
constantly or flashing? Is the commit charge bigger than 256MB?

If so, your computer is heavily relying on the page file. You should upgrade
your ram, or at the very least defragment your hard drive.

 

[Guest]

Found the answer: I turned on indexing to help my file searches. I finally noticed a program cidaemon.exe was using up a lot of memory. I did a google search to find out what cidaemon was, and found that it was the system indexing file. I turned it off and instantly my computer came back to life. Looks like another Microsoft good idea gone bad.

I did defrag, search for viruses, check system memory, and nothing worked untill I went back to start/search/change preferences/turn off indexing services and instantly my computer is running at top speed. I have W2000 on a second hard drive that I could boot to and it was not experiencing the slowdown so I didn't think it was a hardware problem, and it wasn't.