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    flash adverts using excessive cpu

    I've just been looking at the main hexus site (in particular the 4x4 preview/review) and the cpu and memory usage has shot up, I know my pc isn't that powerful (1.6GHz low power intel) but its taking a real hit - averaging 70-99% cpu usage and the page requiring an additional 40MB from the browser.

    I believe it may be the ECS ad that is creating a starfield type effect, it appears to randomly cycle through ads and the problem has only occured with this add

    Normally i wouldn't mind...but its causing my music to stutter and we just can't have that!

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    It IS a bit odd; I'm seeing CPU utilisation increasing to about 46-50% from about 0-6 for a normal page load when going onto that page, and that's on a dual Opteron.

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    Just mailed ECS

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoldenBurn1000 View Post
    Now THATS what I call service
    aye

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    So no-one has cottoned to our plan to resell Intel Dual Core CPU's based on targetted adverts ? Great, we're onto a winner here

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    hehe, good job it wasn't the quad-core chips, or nobody would see anything ever again
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    Try now

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    seems a little less intesnive, thanks

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    I'm just looking at the i-RAM article, and started using FF 2.0. That had very high CPU usage, so I switched to IE7 and that's having the same problem.

    The only flash advert that seems to be on both browsers is that one below:



    EDIT - just moved onto the next page of the article and the CPU usage has gone, but the advert's still there.
    Last edited by ajbrun; 09-12-2006 at 03:35 PM.

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