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Why is my computer hiccuping every few seconds?
40hz:
Edit: Looks like 4wd got it in ahead of me. And with a link too, the Wanker! ;D-40hz (February 09, 2011, 11:09 AM)
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That's Mr. Wanker! to you! :P
-4wd (February 09, 2011, 11:17 AM)
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Apologies, High Chancellor. ;D
timns:
Anyone have any experience with this thing:
http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php
I like some of its features, such as being able to use >4gb memory area under Windows 32 OSes.
superboyac:
Is the firefox memory issue something that mouser's Process Tamer can improve somehow?
f0dder:
Well, ramdisks aren't just for somewhat shoddily programmed applications (like FireFox), they're also great when you do I/O intensive stuff - like unpacking a huge source code archive, building ISO images, et cetera. And it's nice for %TEMP%.
Windows has FILE_FLAG_TEMPORARY, and linux does special handling of /tmp/, but they aren't guarantees that you won't hit disk - and even if the file data never hits the disk, I think the filesystem metadata might be updated.
Is the firefox memory issue something that mouser's Process Tamer can improve somehow?-superboyac (February 09, 2011, 11:52 AM)
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Nope, it handle CPU-based stuff, yours is an I/O issue.
Btw, is it only FireFox that hiccups, or your entire system? The saving of FF's session state shouldn't be affecting the entire system, but it will freeze the entire FireFox process.
superboyac:
Btw, is it only FireFox that hiccups, or your entire system? The saving of FF's session state shouldn't be affecting the entire system, but it will freeze the entire FireFox process.
-f0dder (February 09, 2011, 11:55 AM)
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My hiccup issue is 100% resolved. It was firefox's session restore feature. Once I disabled that, everything was perfect.
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