Sheffield Forum & Processor activity

[Mikes10 10]

As anyone else noticed when SF window has focus the computer processor usage appears to be high?

 

Mike

[Eric_Collins 11]

As anyone else noticed when SF window has focus the computer processor usage appears to be high?

 

Mike

 

what windows you using ?

[Mikes10 10]

Xp Pro Sp3

AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core

2.5GHz

2 GB ram

 

Using Process Explorer to monitor processor usage: see link below

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/0e18b180-9b7a-4c49-8120-c47c5a693683.aspx

[John 11]

It playing flash adverts.

[Mikes10 10]

Its nothing to do with flash player

If I close down SF and go to Sky News or Yahoo (which have lots of flash the processor usage is minimal.

 

It appears particular conditions are causing high processor usage. At present I am not able to determine what it is.

[shakermaker 10]

it's more likely to be background tasks running on your pc

 

open task-manager, go to the processes tab, then click the header of the cpu column to order the processes by cpu usage... you'll be able to see which process is causing the 'spikes'

[Mikes10 10]

Processor activity is high when viewing the list of threads within any particular forum.

 

Entering this message the acitivity is less than 3%

 

I can imagine a computer with a slow processor and minimal memory would appear to have a slow response on SF.

[shakermaker 10]

you say 'when viewing'... you do mean when the page is rendered, not the whole time you're on the page, right?

 

what percentage is cpu usage when this happens?

[Mikes10 10]

When viewing the list of topics within any particular forum (sorry not threads) AND moving the mouse over the topics (as you do) . If I stop moving the mouse, after a few seconds processor activity drops to to less than 3%.

 

It just seems strange that I haven't observed this behaviour on other websites.

[Guest]

I would say it's a problem with your machine/browser. It's the same as any other vBulletin forum as far as I'm aware?

[shakermaker 10]

When viewing the list of topics within any particular forum (sorry not threads) AND moving the mouse over the topics (as you do) . If I stop moving the mouse, after a few seconds processor activity drops to to less than 3%.

 

It just seems strange that I haven't observed this behaviour on other websites.

 

 

what percentage does it rise to?

 

& have which browsers have you tried it in?

[Mikes10 10]

Usage rises to around 50%

I'm currently using IE7, I'm reluctant to use other browsers.

I do not have use additional toolbars such as Google or Yahoo