And what happened to the following running apps on my machine?
- 2 instances of jboss app server
- Eclipse with 38 files open
- 52 Chrome tabs in 4 windows
- 3 Firefox tabs
- EditPlus 4 files
- Notepad++ with 8 files open
- Adobe Acrobat
- Pidgin
- Microsoft Outlook
- 4 Windows Explorer windows
- Picasa Desktop client
- and the various other background processes I could not list
Did Windows save my files? Or at least give a chance to the running apps to do so before mercilessly killing all of them? Yeah, Chrome, Eclipse, and a few others have the auto-save thingy on, but the others? And it would mean restarting the two jboss servers.
Okay, I agree, I was (mis)using by Dell Latitude E5400 running two Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz each, with 3.45GB RAM for 119 processes, but Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3 should have alerted me that it is falling short of resources. An abrupt Blue Screen of Death was the least I expected.
The Microsoft Support page does not list a case that I could assume was the reason in my case, but says, at the end of their 'Symptoms' section, "This problem may also occur at other times, depending on how your system was designed". Duh!
Or was it a case of Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. I had started making a list of apps running on my machine (How else did you think I have that list?) because the system dragged down almost to a standstill after I started the second jboss server, which was maybe retro-caused by the crash. I had expected Windows to give up, but, quoting Switch from The Matrix, "Not like this. Not like this.".
You need to start closing some of these windows :)....52 chrome tabs!
ReplyDelete:) Yeah, they were a bit too many...a few pinned tabs that are always open (Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, Google+, and the likes); one window had tabs related to work--I was researching something, one had stuff related to a blog I was composing, and I don't remember the fourth window--that should have been closed.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, with all the super power that my computer has, this should have worked.
On another line of thought, as computation powers increase, the usage also increases, and they do not have a cause-effect relation. It is simply because both the computer's (internet's) and our horizons expand with time; I tend to need to do a lot more stuff on my computer now than I did 8 years ago on my 1GHz, 256Mb Pentium III machine.