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Date: 14 Feb 2006 6:56 pm
I've noticed lately that the home computer takes forever to change pages after I get a PM. I'll read whatever thread I'm reading and if I get a PM, I know it 'cause the system goes into slow mode and them resumes normal pace after the pop up pops up. It's the same with the additional emoticons. I know it can't be pop up blocker cause we don't have a blocker.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Sherri
Date: 14 Feb 2006 9:11 pm
I haven't noticed it. Is your box full? Or close?
Date: 14 Feb 2006 9:34 pm
Sherri, I did notice some slow downs of loading the PM screen and others.
I also did notice a little extra slowdown when hitting the submit button.
It never crashed, but took a little extra time.
We did have a full house tonight, 13 - 15 members at times.
And postings were flying. --- dontchyaknow ! :lol: :lol:
Marshall has a good point too.
I was over full on mine. It needed a cleaning.
Many more Emoticons were added. Some fairly large too.
So that little window will take a little longer to load now.
But with that said I too have seen it take a few seconds to 5 or 6 seconds to load.
Of course we should keep and eye on it to see if we get any trends.
Date: 15 Feb 2006 5:45 am
On the home computer it takes 10 -15 seconds to load the PM pop up and the emoticon screen. At work the computer just whizzes right to them..maybe it's just the age of the beast. I can always tell before seeing the pop up, if there's a PM waiting for me.
Sherri
Date: 15 Feb 2006 10:13 am
It sounds if you ran out of real memory and it's doing a swap on the virtual memory it has on the hardrive.
Is your hard drive whirling around at that moment?
Date: 15 Feb 2006 12:05 pm
I noticed some slow downs, they pass and it becomes speedy again. Nothing like the original slow down problem though.
Date: 15 Feb 2006 12:21 pm
EGreen wrote:
I noticed some slow downs, they pass and it becomes speedy again. Nothing like the original slow down problem though.
Last night EGReen? or other times?
Date: 15 Feb 2006 1:36 pm
ramit wrote:
It sounds if you ran out of real memory and it's doing a swap on the virtual memory it has on the hardrive.
Is your hard drive whirling around at that moment?
Nope, I don't think the thing that would know how to whirl. :shock: I don't know what causes it.
Sherri
Date: 15 Feb 2006 1:44 pm
MissSnowshoveler wrote:
ramit wrote:
It sounds if you ran out of real memory and it's doing a swap on the virtual memory it has on the hardrive.
Is your hard drive whirling around at that moment?
Nope, I don't think the thing that would know how to whirl. :shock: I don't know what causes it.
Sherri
So you don't hear the harddrive spinning during that time?
Date: 15 Feb 2006 1:47 pm
ramit wrote:
MissSnowshoveler wrote:
ramit wrote:
It sounds if you ran out of real memory and it's doing a swap on the virtual memory it has on the hardrive.
Is your hard drive whirling around at that moment?
Nope, I don't think the thing that would know how to whirl. :shock: I don't know what causes it.
Sherri
So you don't hear the harddrive spinning during that time?
No I don't. I haven't heard that thing whirl in ages.
Sherri
Date: 15 Feb 2006 1:55 pm
MissSnowshoveler wrote:
ramit wrote:
MissSnowshoveler wrote:
ramit wrote:
It sounds if you ran out of real memory and it's doing a swap on the virtual memory it has on the hardrive.
Is your hard drive whirling around at that moment?
Nope, I don't think the thing that would know how to whirl. :shock: I don't know what causes it.
Sherri
So you don't hear the harddrive spinning during that time?
No I don't. I haven't heard that thing whirl in ages.
Sherri
That's not good, should be working then =- LOL...
Do you have a little light that tells you the harddrive is working and seekign for data, flashes...?
Date: 15 Feb 2006 2:19 pm
ramit wrote:
That's not good, should be working then =- LOL...
Do you have a little light that tells you the harddrive is working and seekign for data, flashes...?
There's a light on the hard drive that flashes... :shock: :?: Maybe I should pay more attention to what's going on in the hard drive.
Sherri
Date: 15 Feb 2006 2:34 pm
MissSnowshoveler wrote:
ramit wrote:
That's not good, should be working then =- LOL...
Do you have a little light that tells you the harddrive is working and seekign for data, flashes...?
There's a light on the hard drive that flashes... :shock: :?: Maybe I should pay more attention to what's going on in the hard drive.
Sherri
There's usually a two lights on the front of the computer case.
One for powe and another that flashes when the hard drive is getting data and working it's little butt off.
The same light that goes nutz when your booting the machine.
If that light is going nutz when a screen is taking it's time changing, that's cause the 'puter is doing a read/write to a swap file on the hard drive, cause it ran out of solid state memory. The solidstate memory is soooooo much more faster then the vitrual memory file that is made on the hard drive.
Date: 15 Feb 2006 3:13 pm
[quote="ramit
There's usually a two lights on the front of the computer case.
One for powe and another that flashes when the hard drive is getting data and working it's little butt off.
The same light that goes nutz when your booting the machine.
If that light is going nutz when a screen is taking it's time changing, that's cause the 'puter is doing a read/write to a swap file on the hard drive, cause it ran out of solid state memory. The solidstate memory is soooooo much more faster then the vitrual memory file that is made on the hard drive.[/quote]
Okay, I see the 2 lights, on the computer here, I'll have to check out the computer at home tonight. With my luck the little light that's supposed to flash is all flashed out.
Okay we're getting into tech stuff again, I feel myself feeling sinking into a spiraling mess of quick sand. Is there some place where I check out the numbers on this solid state and virtual memory?
Sherri
Date: 15 Feb 2006 3:21 pm
MissSnowshoveler wrote:
Okay, I see the 2 lights, on the computer here, I'll have to check out the computer at home tonight. With my luck the little light that's supposed to flash is all flashed out.
Okay we're getting into tech stuff again, I feel myself feeling sinking into a spiraling mess of quick sand. Is there some place where I check out the numbers on this solid state and virtual memory?
Sherri
LOL- it's an LED, they -usually- outlast the PC !
Usually if you go to the start menu, setting, control panel.
Then double click on "System", when System opens up , towards the bottom right hand corner it will tell you your proccessor and amount of memory in the machine. Let me know what it says.
Date: 15 Feb 2006 3:52 pm
ramit wrote:
LOL- it's an LED, they -usually- outlast the PC !
Usually if you go to the start menu, setting, control panel.
Then double click on "System", when System opens up , towards the bottom right hand corner it will tell you your proccessor and amount of memory in the machine. Let me know what it says.
I will try and remember to do that when I get home. The numbers will probably scare you.
Sherri
Date: 15 Feb 2006 4:10 pm
It it's like 64mb, you might as well unplug it, it ran out years ago.
Date: 15 Feb 2006 4:42 pm
Okay this is what it says...
Computer:
GenuineIntel
Pentium(r) Processor
Intel MMX(TM) Technology
192.0MB RAM
Sherri
Date: 15 Feb 2006 4:54 pm
Are you home now?
Or is that the work machine?
Date: 15 Feb 2006 5:02 pm
ramit wrote:
Are you home now?
Or is that the work machine?
Oh sorry, I'm home now and there isn't any flashing lights. I've gotta light that is orangy/yellow with an arrow above it, a 'blown' light with a cylinder type thing above it and a green light with a light bulb above it.
Sherri
Date: 15 Feb 2006 6:04 pm
MissSnowshoveler wrote:
ramit wrote:
Are you home now?
Or is that the work machine?
Oh sorry, I'm home now and there isn't any flashing lights. I've gotta light that is orangy/yellow with an arrow above it, a 'blown' light with a cylinder type thing above it and a green light with a light bulb above it.
Sherri
Ah that light with the cylinder above it is the harddrive light..
when you are trying to change pages and it's taking it's sweet time, or anything it taking it sweet time, if that light it blinking, it's working, just taking it's sweet time while the pc accesses the harddrive.
If Icon page is taking it's sweet time loading and that light isn't blinking, then it's not the hardrive delaying things.
If you open a new program, you should see that light flicker an bunch if times.
Date: 15 Feb 2006 6:07 pm
No flickering lights, but when I put my finger there I can barely see that it's lit.
Sherri
Date: 15 Feb 2006 6:14 pm
MissSnowshoveler wrote:
No flickering lights, but when I put my finger there I can barely see that it's lit.
Sherri
It shouldnt be lite steady, that might be light leakage from a light next to it.
It doesn't flicker at all when you open a new program?
Date: 16 Feb 2006 5:30 am
Sorry it took so long for me to get back to you. (I fell asleep on the couch tryingt o get warm) Nope, no flickering at all. It's just either like you said light leakage, or just dimmly lit all the time.
Sherri
Date: 16 Feb 2006 9:05 am
So while a program is opening and starting on your machine that light doesn't flicker?
Does any of them flicker when a program is starting up? (maybe someone put the wrong connector on the wrong spot :? )
Date: 16 Feb 2006 9:12 am
ramit wrote:
So while a program is opening and starting on your machine that light doesn't flicker?
Does any of them flicker when a program is starting up? (maybe someone put the wrong connector on the wrong spot :? )
Nope now of the lights flicker, I stared at them last night quite intently as I was moving around programs and websites. The work computers light flashes, so now I see what you mean. Chris tears the thing apart after it crashes, so having something plugged in wrong wouldn't surprise me. But that hasn't been a problem in the last few months and this slow notification of PM's is just recent.
Sherri
Date: 16 Feb 2006 9:26 am
MissSnowshoveler wrote:
ramit wrote:
So while a program is opening and starting on your machine that light doesn't flicker?
Does any of them flicker when a program is starting up? (maybe someone put the wrong connector on the wrong spot :? )
Nope now of the lights flicker, I stared at them last night quite intently as I was moving around programs and websites. The work computers light flashes, so now I see what you mean. Chris tears the thing apart after it crashes, so having something plugged in wrong wouldn't surprise me. But that hasn't been a problem in the last few months and this slow notification of PM's is just recent.
Sherri
Not having it plugged in , or not plugged in right , wont cause the problem. I was just looking for a hint of how much your machine may be working as it's trying to load the Emiticon page and such.
If that harddrive light is flashing while loading that page, that's the main reason for the slow down. Which is what I'm still assuming at this point since it's only recently, and only recently have more emoticons have been added.
The popup window for the PMs is just like opening a new browser and takes a lot of memory compared to what you have in the machine. So I'm still of the opinion that your machine is using swap file memory , virtual memory, on the hard drive which is slow.
I haven't noticed a problem. mrmom is having a different problem, he not getting a confirmation window after sending a PM.
Date: 16 Feb 2006 9:50 am
Okay. I was just curious and I'll live with it until the day a new 'puter walks in the door. :wink:
Sherri
Date: 16 Feb 2006 9:55 am
MissSnowshoveler wrote:
Okay. I was just curious and I'll live with it until the day a new 'puter walks in the door. :wink:
Sherri
no problem... atleast we know it's the one computer.
Date: 16 Feb 2006 11:52 am
ramit wrote:
EGreen wrote:
I noticed some slow downs, they pass and it becomes speedy again. Nothing like the original slow down problem though.
Last night EGReen? or other times?
I think just last night, there have been the occasional slow down, but now it dawns on me that you did send me a PM, my pop-up blocker blocks them so maybe that caused the slow down for me.
Date: 16 Feb 2006 12:14 pm
Some pop-up blockers go provide a notice that they blocked a pop-up... ???
sounds kinda like a trade off. Mine stalls a moment when my pop-up blocker tells me it blocked something. Got to be annoying, so turned it off for this site only.. but the PM new message indicator takes a little effort by the pc to open up too.
You ca go to your profile and turn off the action of the forum giving you a pop up indicator for new PMs.
We have been having some nice peak usages... more then 10 people on at times and some rapid fire postings :wasntme: :wink: amongst a few members !
I do want to look for trends, to make sure there are any problems like we had in the past.
I do expect every once in a while we will get slow downs.
Date: 16 Feb 2006 5:27 pm
I have noticed a big slowdown today when posting,when you hit submit button it takes forever for the post to be done.
Date: 16 Feb 2006 5:50 pm
I did to for a moment, and now it's ok.