"Not responding" error while CPU and Memory are free

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Sometimes, while CPU and Physical memory are free, some program's status change to Not responding! Why?!

For example as you see below, 80% of CPU and 25% of RAM are free! but VMware went to Not Responding. Why it doesn't use this free CPU and RAM?

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I was guessed that the Operation-Sysyem restrict every program and allocate a maximum CPU and RAM to each program, so I change the priority of process of this program (vmware.exe) to Real-Time! but the problem is still remain. Why?

FYI : I change the priority by do a right click on name of the process in the process tab of Windows-Task-Manager and select Set Priority and ...

TheGoodUser

Posted 2014-08-15T22:33:40.543

Reputation: 1 045

I would guess that the program had a problem. – cliff2310 – 2014-08-15T22:46:19.963

@cliff2310 This is not only for VMware! I also had this problem with other programs sometimes. It remains for 10 second or less! – TheGoodUser – 2014-08-15T22:54:26.587

Well, it could be a hardware problem, like a disk that is giving errors on read or write tries. Check the error logs. Or it could be waiting on some other hardware to respond to a request. – cliff2310 – 2014-08-16T00:10:39.420

Analyze Wait Chain of Vmware ad look why it hangs: http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/ht074911

– magicandre1981 – 2014-08-16T07:01:27.553

Answers

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A "not responding" error from the OS just means that the program is not responding to the requests from the OS in a timely fashion. Memory/processor usage is only one of the reasons for programs to slow down stop responding. A program can crash because of any other error within that specific program (vmware or any other).

dbza

Posted 2014-08-15T22:33:40.543

Reputation: 508

What kind of error? – TheGoodUser – 2014-08-15T23:32:40.527

It would be too difficult to figure out what kind of error from only the above information. Does it happen when you perform any specific action in vmware? Are you normally able to run vmware without errors? most programs write the memory dump and log files while they crash, you can find more details on the error and maybe update the question to make it specific. – dbza – 2014-08-15T23:37:46.373

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