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Newegg ad causing high CPU usage?

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Viper87227

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The newegg ad up top seems to be messing with my CPU usage. With the ad on screen, firefox floats between 40-70% CPU usage. Soon as I scroll down the usage drops to 10% or so. Closing the forums brings firefox back down to 0-2% usage.

Anyone else having the same problem?
 
It's been doing that for as long as I can remember. If you're wondering if it's a problem with your system, I'm pretty sure everyone has the same issue. It's not nearly as bad in IE, blame it on Firefox.
 
m3ta1head said:
I can't tell because I have F@h running :p

"100...oh, 99! 100.......101"
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I am folding too... thats why I don't want the ad eating up my CPU usage. I want [H] to have money and all, but a cure for cancer > [H] money.


P.S.... talking about adblock = no bueno



Oldie said:
It's been doing that for as long as I can remember. If you're wondering if it's a problem with your system, I'm pretty sure everyone has the same issue. It's not nearly as bad in IE, blame it on Firefox.
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I know it's been an issue in the past... but I haven't noticed it in a long time. No amount of ad rape would make me use IE though :D
 
It is a FireFox issue. Little can be done about it with your browser. 1 to 3% total pull in IE6.
 
m3ta1head said:
I can't tell because I have F@h running :p

"100...oh, 99! 100.......101"


Anyway....they make SHIT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT :p
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dude edit that asap or you will be folding for a site you are not apart of :D
 
m3ta1head said:
I can't tell because I have F@h running :p

"100...oh, 99! 100.......101"


Anyway....they make adblock for a reason :p
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They make user block as well....
 
The past 2 days when I load HardOCP front page, it hangs for a second or 2. I had never noticed it before.

Did you add anything new ? Or is it just my work PC (P4 3.06Ghz w/HT) is getting "old". BTW, it doesn't do it for ANY other websites. Even the pages with massive quantities of porn! :)
 
My work computer which is a P3-933 or 966, really hangs up on it as well. I just uninstalled Flash altogether. It really brings computers to a crawl with the memory and cpu usage.

Helped a shitton. I went into about:config and there is a trigger to switch somewhere to disable the prompting about an uninstalled plugin.

Also serves to make sure I don't click and link and end up with a youtube/google video playing I shouldn't at work. =)

And really, Flash is almost entirely used for embedded movies, games, and advertisements these days, none of which I care much about.
 
chrisf6969 said:
The past 2 days when I load HardOCP front page, it hangs for a second or 2. I had never noticed it before.

Did you add anything new ? Or is it just my work PC (P4 3.06Ghz w/HT) is getting "old". BTW, it doesn't do it for ANY other websites. Even the pages with massive quantities of porn! :)
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It has been hanging everytime I load the main page for a couple of seconds, not sure whats going on...

Edit: I looked again and it was intellitext loading, total page load was 18.5 seconds according to firefox.

Edit 2: Every page is taking more than 10 seconds to load because of the intellitext, Im not sure if this related to the high CPU usage.
 
Try a browser besides FF.

That said, I get page loads of less then 2 seconds with both FF and IE6, so maybe the issue is on your end.
 
I'm using 1.5.0.6 and I'm not having that problem. Its only a 5% cpu increase with both ads in sight. I'm runing a AMD +1800 XP Althon. So its pretty weird to me if your having problems with your CPU usage when everyone has faster cpu(s) than me.
 
Ive never had that add cause high cpu usage. I think you guys have been feedin your comps some acid or somethin :p
 
I'm not having any loading issues with Opera, no slowdown, no excessive memory/cpu usage.
 
I've found that in general, it doesn't matter what browser you use. The flash plug-in is just a cpu hog. The older the version of the plug-in you have, the worse it is. If you're on linux, you're stuck with an old version and may see more problems.

If one flash ad uses more of your cpu, that usually means nothing more than the ad has more effects. The newegg ads always have some effect in the background ( like the spotlight or some other thing that involves rotation ) that seems to require more juice.

Maybe someone could check out the script for the ad and see if anything can be optimized. Besides that though, the ad is probably relatively efficient. It just uses more effects.

If you have more than one forum page open and see this problem, you might want to stick to opening only one forum page at a time.
 
there is a new egg ad that doesn't seem to do anything to my processor usage but it does make my typing curser blink about a million times a second. using IE6
 
Until I gather the rest of my PC together I've been running a 1.2GHz Athlon MP and when I view movies off the HD it lags to hell if I keep the FS/FT Forums up cause of the banner. Nothing that AdBlock couldn't fix though :D
 
StinkyMojo said:
Until I gather the rest of my PC together I've been running a 1.2GHz Athlon MP and when I view movies off the HD it lags to hell if I keep the FS/FT Forums up cause of the banner. Nothing that AdBlock couldn't fix though :D
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You might want to go back and read the first page....
 
I don't think it is browser related. I think it's AV related. I use Opera both at home and here at work. At home, not a problem at all. But at work, the first time going to any flash enabled site with Opera causes my PC to lock up for 30 to 45 seconds. The culprit is McAffee Corp AV. Either it or a process called MS_SCRIPT_IN_USE pegs out my P4 CPU's time. Once it's done, as long as I don't close the browser, I am fine.
 
Met-AL said:
I don't think it is browser related. I think it's AV related. I use Opera both at home and here at work. At home, not a problem at all. But at work, the first time going to any flash enabled site with Opera causes my PC to lock up for 30 to 45 seconds. The culprit is McAffee Corp AV. Either it or a process called MS_SCRIPT_IN_USE pegs out my P4 CPU's time. Once it's done, as long as I don't close the browser, I am fine.
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Amazing, when at work I have the problem but at home it's fine. We are using the same AV here at work and now I know what the problem is.Thanks!
 
techie81 said:
Amazing, when at work I have the problem but at home it's fine. We are using the same AV here at work and now I know what the problem is.Thanks!
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Yaa, that AV is a real piece of work. It also hangs the PC when the save dialog comes up for Word or Exel. God I hate it. Drives me nuts. But, I have to live with it, getting our company to change this would be like telling a freight train to make a right turn at the next crossing.
 
Viper are you running the same AV? Does any of this help solve your problem?
 
Met-AL said:
I don't think it is browser related. I think it's AV related. I use Opera both at home and here at work. At home, not a problem at all. But at work, the first time going to any flash enabled site with Opera causes my PC to lock up for 30 to 45 seconds. The culprit is McAffee Corp AV. Either it or a process called MS_SCRIPT_IN_USE pegs out my P4 CPU's time. Once it's done, as long as I don't close the browser, I am fine.
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I wonder if AVG is similar..
 
techie81 said:
Viper are you running the same AV? Does any of this help solve your problem?
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Ha.... no. On this crapper, I don't even have antivirus. Ain't a damn thing on here I care about :)
 
Met-AL said:
I don't think it is browser related. I think it's AV related. I use Opera both at home and here at work. At home, not a problem at all. But at work, the first time going to any flash enabled site with Opera causes my PC to lock up for 30 to 45 seconds. The culprit is McAffee Corp AV. Either it or a process called MS_SCRIPT_IN_USE pegs out my P4 CPU's time. Once it's done, as long as I don't close the browser, I am fine.
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Interesting... I just noticed this high CPU usage crap today myself (I am at work). My home computer never runs into this issue of heavy CPU load at the [H] with firefox, but I have Norton at the office.

Doesn't really matter if I turn it off though as I still get 65-90% CPU load from that banner ad.
 
StinkyMojo said:
Until I gather the rest of my PC together I've been running a 1.2GHz Athlon MP and when I view movies off the HD it lags to hell if I keep the FS/FT Forums up cause of the banner. Nothing that AdBlock couldn't fix though :D
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User block to the rescue.
 
Viper87227 said:
The newegg ad up top seems to be messing with my CPU usage. With the ad on screen, firefox floats between 40-70% CPU usage. Soon as I scroll down the usage drops to 10% or so. Closing the forums brings firefox back down to 0-2% usage.

Anyone else having the same problem?
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Yup, just a CPU hog. When I used my 0.8Ghz computer, it would crank it up to 50+%.
Very discriminating of people with slow computers. ^_^
A shame too.
 
InorganicMatter said:
PWNT by the man!

I think it's a problem on your end man. I don't get this on any of the many computers I use, not on IE or FF.
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That's cause your thing's chugging at 3.2GHz....................................................................
 
towert7 said:
That's cause your thing's chugging at 3.2GHz....................................................................
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Well, my Prescot isn't exactly fast, but I also don't get this on my 1.6GHz laptop, my 1GHz P3 at work, or my 1.9GHz P4 at home. Your problem, not the site's.
 
InorganicMatter said:
Your problem, not the site's.
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WRONG!
It's not the site's problem, it's the ad itself.
And don't let anyone tell you differently.
 
towert7 said:
WRONG!
It's not the site's problem, it's the ad itself.
And don't let anyone tell you differently.
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*shrugs*
My Firefox is running at 8-10% usage on my 1.6GHz laptop right now and that's with all the banners and google ads going at full flashiness.
 
yea, ive noticed this too. Its so bad at work, I cant watch youtube videos or anything smoothly till I close the [H]. I can deal with it, but it is a little rediculous.
 
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