Why does this eat my processor?

[Santilli]

In other words, if I put 2 gig of ram in my current asus mobo, will 2000 quit hitting, or paging, all together?

For example, one, really cool website, for me,

http://www.surfline.com/mag/features/day_in_the_life/index.html

totally eats my processor. It takes 100% of a 1.4 mhz Athlon processor, with 512 mb of ram, on an Asus A7m266.

I can't open the quicktime videos, unless I hit minimize, and, for some reason, that does just that with the website, and allows me to see my former tennis partner, and surfing partner, Jill, bounce her beautiful ass on a Sunset wave.
(She's a stripper who surfs). We played tennis for five years, or more, together before her husband tried to beat me up, because he thought I was having sex with her. I, should have, but I didn't, and, considering the court time for the restraining order, that I asked for, I should have, but, that just keeps this thread intresting;-)

http://www.surfline.com/mag/features/day_in_the_life/1215_1215_pigtails_qt.html

That said, would increasing the ram decrease the processor requirements?


Just so you don't miss the entire effect, look at the 12:15 time frame on the surfline page.

It discusses Jill's assets, which are considerable. She has boogie boards Sunset Beach from 1985, until 2004(that I know of), with a religous zeal that is totally incredible. By the way, she is too, in a bikini.

They may not be real, but the clevage is truly spectacular.

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[blakerwry]

the flash uses up 100% of my CPU (or very close) on a 2GHz athlonXP w 512MB PC2700. I have a feeling it would do this not matter how fast a CPU you had.

Even though the CPU usage is very high, the videos play fine for me. Minimizing the flash made some of the videos start faster or play a little smoother.

Setting the flash quality to low might help you, although I still notice >90% CPU usage with it set like that. I imagine it's just how the animation was created... poorly.

 

[Santilli]

Is there a way to turn flash off?
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[blakerwry]

That site will not load without flash... i dont know if you could call it a website... it is more of a "flash site".

 

[e_dawg]

The Flash animation uses about 85% of my Athlon Tbred 2200 w/512 MB of RAM. I am not surprised, as heavy scrolling with Acrobat and JavaScript routinely eat tons of CPU cycles. More RAM will definitely NOT help. IMO, a faster CPU will help as these activities seem CPU bound. I recall that when I replaced my Athlon Classic 650 with an Athlon 1800 and 2200, scrolling in Acrobat, Flash animations, video, and JavaScript were much smoother than before with the 650, and the CPU usage decreased from 100% in everything to 50-90% depending on the activity.

What browser are you using? It is difficult to turn remove flash from IE (and to stop Flash from pestering you to install it when you come across a Flash animation on a webpage on IE after you have removed it). Information on IE flash-ectomy can be found below, but I suggest you use a vastly superior browser like myIE2, which can block Flash as well as pop-ups, in addition to having tabbed-browsing.

To remove Flash from IE:
http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18354#18354

To prevent Flash from pestering you to install it everytime you run across a .swf file:
http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=27710#27710

I realized that my hosts file trick doesn't always work. Again, I recommend a better browser like myIE2. I also like Opera 7.2 as an alternative browser. While many people prefer Mozilla 1.5, I find it my least favourite of the "IE alternatives" (or at least I did when I last tried it as version 1.2).

myIE2, Opera, and Mozilla can be found here:
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/misctools/fwbrowser.html

Also, don't forget that many websites require flash to enter. Since you already know the URL for the video you want, it's not a big deal, but many sites won't let you in without going through a Flash home page, as blake noticed with your surf site.

 

[Tannin]

For some reason or other, I find myself completely unable to remember the question.

 

[Santilli]

Ask Tea.

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[Mercutio]

If you put to 2 GB of RAM in your PC, it will not stop paging out memory. Paging and Swapping are two different things.

Paging = The OS trying to optimize available RAM by moving 4k blocks that aren't being used very much to your pagefile.

Swapping = Accessing your hard disk as if it were RAM in times of extreme need.

There's a subtle difference. You can get swapping to stop pretty easily (2GB of RAM will do that for sure, but 512MB does it for almost everyone), but paging is something NT does to help performance and there's no way to turn that off short of turning off virtual memory entirely.