Warning box (yellow, orange, red) What it means?

[dissenyadorpcb]

Hello,
Greetings to all. Congratulations for this very useful page.

In the main application window, at the lower right corner, there is a box that sometimes turns yellow or orange or red.
Could someone tell me what it means exactly?
If this has something to do with the program's cache, is there a way to empty it without having to close the program?

Thank you very much for your unconditional help.

[ajawamnet]

https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/windows-system-resource-monitoring

Means you might want to save out and restart Altium. GDI usage can get out of hand along with things like atomic operations:


A warning indicator appears when Altium Designer's resource consumption becomes high, and changes color to indicate when action is required.

The following resources are monitored:

• Memory used by Altium Designer
• Count of allocated GDI handles
• Percentage of allocated global and session atoms

The resource monitor triggers and displays a warning indicator when any of the above resources reach the following levels:

• < 60% normal level (no resource indicator is displayed)
• 61% to 75% is considered a high level, indicated by a yellow indicator
• 76% to 90% is considered a very high level, indicated by an orange indicator. In addition, the message indicates that a restart of Altium Designer is advisable.
• > 90% is considered a critical level, indicated by a red indicator. In addition, the message indicates that a restart of Altium Designer is advisable.

[dissenyadorpcb]

Thank you very much! I had a hard time finding this information.

[qdrives]

"... restart of Altium Designer is advisable." - if you ignore it, Altium will eventually shutdown for you - and does not save your documents this time.
But it is not Altium that may crash, it likes to take other application down too (like Chrome)