Is this page slow for anyone else?
August 2nd, 2008
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Maybe it’s just me or maybe it’s not, but for some reason this page has been taking up an obscene amount of CPU power and ram recently. Am I the only one experiencing this? Perhaps it’s that comment scroller which I thought I had finally gotten working like I had hoped. Or it might be the way I have my own browser set up, but either way if I’m not the only one let me know. Perhaps it needs a couple of tweaks. I just updated by copy of Firefox so it could be that one of the plugins isn’t playing nicely.
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August 2nd, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Works fine for me, and the comment scroller works. I am using Firefox and Vista and I live in Orange County, California. Have you tried rebooting? For me Vista will for no apparent reason stop communicating on my local network, and rebooting is the only solution.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 12:45 am
The comment scroler thingie is maxing out my processor too. I’m running WinXP SP2 browsing with FireFox 3.0.1 with updated java and flash
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August 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 am
I withdraw my remark. I am running a dual processor, and when I see the comment scroller, Firefox uses 50% of the CPU time. In other words, it uses all the processing time of one of my two processors. This is way more than it should. I am using an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ at 2.3 GHz.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 am
There is something wrong with that script. I’ve had the hit total on this page drop dramatically in the past couple of weeks and I think that might be the reason: people are having their system choke on it. Hence, i’ve taken it down. I found a much more effecient script elsewhere but unfortunately it’s payware and so I guess I’ll bite the bullet and pay out the 35 bucks to get that and hopefully have it up tomorrow.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 2:00 am
Ug. I just realized that the alignment of the sidebar and the top search thingy is slightly off in internet explorer. Looks like more work for tomorrow!
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August 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 am
It tends to load slow for me. I generally have to wait 10 – 15 seconds for the page to load.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 am
TomT said:
still?
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August 3rd, 2008 at 10:51 am
The page never gave me any problems, at any time. I’m on a DSL line.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
drbuzz0 said:
No actually this morning is loaded quite nicely. I did see a surge of CPU activity but nothing like last night where one of the cores went red and the other maxed out at about 90% processing. This morning there was probably a 1 – 1.5 second surge of 70 – 80% activity when it loaded. And it loaded snappily too.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 3:10 pm
TomT said:
Wow that is pretty slow. It pops right up for me. TomT, what browser are you using?
I am still on Firefox 2 on this machine. I have Firefox 3 on my other machine. I’ll try it on that and see what happens.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I loaded your page on my computer that has Firefox 3 and it did seem a little slower than my Firefox 2 computer. It took about 5 seconds on my Firefox 3 computer which is slower but not by a lot. The Firefox 2 computer is also my more powerful computer so I don’t know that this test is very conclusive.
Your page isn’t very graphic or animation intensive so CPU speed may not be much of an issue anyway.
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August 4th, 2008 at 11:01 am
using exploder 7 at work your page typically takes several minutes to load. The first story or two will load and I will be done reading them before the rest of the page or the sidebar has loaded.
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August 4th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
JParker said:
Same here. I noticed the page mainly hangs with the message “Waiting for http://digg.com/tools/…..”
10-20 Seconds for each of the stories on a page. The more stories are on a page, the more often it hangs at “Waiting for digg..”, like for Godot
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August 4th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Any one still using Explorer deserves what ever they get. Firefox forever!
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August 5th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Is there anything else beside Firefox??? I hadn’t noticed.
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August 5th, 2008 at 1:42 am
I’ll mention this here since this is a website entry even though is off topic.
Doc, have you ever considered a FAQ for the site. We do seem to have to answer the same questions over and over again?
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August 5th, 2008 at 8:33 am
JParker said:
Same here. I sometimes go off to read something else and forget to come back!
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