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Firefox users no more memory eating!

i have normal cpu usage when a page is loading with or without this opt. the cpu is jumping from 2-40%;i think is normal but let see other's results
 
theonetruewill said:
I'm getting 1-11% CPU usage total. Optimizer is not even showing above 00, and firefox occasionally slips up to about 08 max so far, while it normally sits at about 01-04.
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Yeah I think that anything that streams info makes the program go crazy, let me go try youtube and see what happens.

Edit: On youtube, the program doesn't use that much, but it pushes firefox to use about 20% with total consumption landed at about 40%. Keep in mind this was at 1ghz...or I think it was.
 
That's a little relief then. Maybe I can burn this PoS out and get something fresh.

I've been bugging the tech's for weeks about how disgusting it is that this box gets used for CAD. One of em had the nerve to tell me that this thing "has the more memory in it than any other computer in the building!" I laughed, as the box running not 15 feet away is a p4 with twice as much...

God this is weird. Now it's not just at 100% constantly, but dropping to 25% and spiking to 100% every 3-4 seconds. Task Manager looks like a bed of nails. That's with 6 fully loaded tabs sitting. Cutting it back to just one tab drops the CPU usage to 10-15% with 35% spikes every 6-8 seconds. Kinda strange, instead of being a memory hog, this guy figured out how to make your CPU do all the work. Not so bad when you've got a couple Ghz on multi-core machines, but much more intensive for this thing.
 
Silverel said:
That's a little relief then. Maybe I can burn this PoS out and get something fresh.

I've been bugging the tech's for weeks about how disgusting it is that this box gets used for CAD. One of em had the nerve to tell me that this thing "has the more memory in it than any other computer in the building!" I laughed, as the box running not 15 feet away is a p4 with twice as much...

God this is weird. Now it's not just at 100% constantly, but dropping to 25% and spiking to 100% every 3-4 seconds. Task Manager looks like a bed of nails. That's with 6 fully loaded tabs sitting. Cutting it back to just one tab drops the CPU usage to 10-15% with 35% spikes every 6-8 seconds. Kinda strange, instead of being a memory hog, this guy figured out how to make your CPU do all the work. Not so bad when you've got a couple Ghz on multi-core machines, but much more intensive for this thing.
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To be honest- it's a better idea. People have higher spec machines that can deal with this sort of thing. The standard is dual-core, and people aren't in general going to have something less than a Pentium 4 as their main computer, unless this sort of thing won't really matter to them as they are not worried about CPU usage.
 
theonetruewill said:
To be honest- it's a better idea. People have higher spec machines that can deal with this sort of thing. The standard is dual-core, and people aren't in general going to have something less than a Pentium 4 as their main computer, unless this sort of thing won't really matter to them as they are not worried about CPU usage.
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Well...in a laptop I don't want to hear my fan going full blast, even though it probably wouldn't. Maybe it's because of Vista? Anyone else have it on Vista?
 
Tested with 6 TPU tabs open, and it was pretty stable. Maybe it just needed a little burn-in time? o.o...

I dunno, try opening a bunch of tabs at reuters.com though, that seems to be the real problem. It has a streaming rss feed that apparently does not like this optimizer. I'm thinking it must load the page, and then dump the memory immediately after/during the process. Maybe with such a slow processor it makes it easier to notice. I dunno. Youtube wouldn't be a good example of streaming, as after it loads on your drive it wouldn't be accessing firefox any moreso than something you'd download. It's not constantly refreshing the page with new content, just playing after it finished the download. Also the reason you can scroll back through the video to any point, without having to wait for it to upload again.
 
kwchang007 said:
Well...in a laptop I don't want to hear my fan going full blast, even though it probably wouldn't. Maybe it's because of Vista? Anyone else have it on Vista?
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It won't go full blast if you're not streaming radio and doing other intensive things. If it does, it would have anyway.
 
theonetruewill said:
It won't go full blast if you're not streaming radio and doing other intensive things. If it does, it would have anyway.
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I think I'm going to blame it on Vista lol.
 
It goes crazy when its streaming 4% to 50% but still works great.
 
Snipe343 said:
It goes crazy when its streaming 4% to 50% but still works great.
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Try the streaming without the optimizer and see if that happens anyway. It just doesn't happen to me at all. I have no CPU utilization issues with either FF or the program, before or after.
 
Makes a difference without the optimizer for sure, instead of the 25-100% spikes I get 0-50%.

Definitely makes sense for any modern CPU, being that my 25-100% is only 150-600mhz. Modern ram probably helps a bunch as well. This is running on 2x256MB of 100mhz.

As such, my 100% spikes would be about 21% of a 2.8ghz CPU. Less for a dual core if FF is multi-threaded... which I wouldn't know.

I don't wanna figure out how much faster 2gigs of 800mhz memory in dual channel would be...

All in all, probably not a concern for anyone with a decent rig. It's just using the CPU more than without it.


edit - at a blank page optimizer uses around 50-60mhz. Finished pages are just slightly more.
 
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Silverel said:
Makes a difference without the optimizer for sure, instead of the 25-100% spikes I get 0-50%.

Definitely makes sense for any modern CPU, being that my 25-100% is only 150-600mhz. Modern ram probably helps a bunch as well. This is running on 2x256MB of 100mhz.

As such, my 100% spikes would be about 21% of a 2.8ghz CPU. Less for a dual core if FF is multi-threaded... which I wouldn't know.

I don't wanna figure out how much faster 2gigs of 800mhz memory in dual channel would be...

All in all, probably not a concern for anyone with a decent rig. It's just using the CPU more than without it.


edit - at a blank page optimizer uses around 50-60mhz. Finished pages are just slightly more.
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I see you're running Vista. I get the same thing when streaming something.
 
so the optimizer works better in xp?
 
panchoman said:
so the optimizer works better in xp?
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Wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. Alot of things work better in xp ;), I just like Vista and my laptops not a powerhouse in the first place, so benching and what not is cool, but not uber important.
 
XP FTW! you know though, i think the best os ms ever made was windows 2000. very very fast and clean.
 
I'm gonna say that this progie really helped me too...
 
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kwchang007 said:
I see you're running Vista. I get the same thing when streaming something.
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Nope, win2k

Vista would never run on this thing.

p3 600e
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Silverel said:
Hmm... Interesting.

I've got this installed on this P3 600mhz box at work, and it really is pounding away on the CPU. 100% usage all the time. It's doing a good job at keeping the mem usage low, and it still allows me to work unhindered. Just seems a little odd that it uses any spare processing power to do whatever it's doing.

I wonder what you guys with the beefy procs are looking at usage-wise.
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i get about 10% usage on the hardware in specs. POS (x2 4600+@2.6ghz) is getting 3%
 
Yeah, so the box in my specs does just fine with this. 1-4%

Much more comfortable with that. Now to go find a shet ton more FF extensions since I don't have to worry about it eating my ram for lunch. Woot!
 
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