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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2014, 10:56 PM »

You can now use options to give yourself a very small window of top memory consumers that can be made to stay on top of other windows.  Maybe useful if you want to keep an eye on something:

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2014, 09:57 PM »

First post updated to show that new version main window now lists the top memory consumers, with right-click menu to terminate, restart, or explore.  That's a bit more useful I think.

(The top memory consumers list shows a list of all processes eating more than 50mb, sorted with highest-offenders at the top; it will be updated live whenever the form is on screen).

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2014, 07:12 PM »

Well now that I've dived back into this realm, we should revisit some of these ideas -- Process Piglet was just meant to be a toe in the water, I do hope to add more customizable event detections, etc.

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Living Room / Re: Multiple Mini Reviews

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2014, 06:41 PM »

Absolutely  

(a great way to say thanks is to send him some donationcredits).

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2014, 06:34 PM »

Let me explain what motivated the coding of Process Piglet.

Every so ofter i notice my browser and often my entire computer is slowing getting less responsive and grinding to a halt.

When this happen I open up the task manager, and inevitably I discover that some application, almost always the Firefox web browser, os starting to consume GIGABYTES of memory.

Now I like Firefox quite a bit, and i'm not ready to give up on it -- but i need an easy way of getting some advance notice when it's going to shit the bed and start leaking memory, and an easy way to restart it when it does.

That's the kind of situation Process Piglet is for -- it should help give you an early warning when an application is starting to leak memory or otherwise get out of control in terms of memory consumption.

Where Process Tamer was designed to detect applications that were using high amounts of CPU, Process Piglet is designed to find applications that go crazy with memory use.


One important thing to understand is that Process Piglet does *NOT* have an absolute notion of high memory use -- it only cares about when applications start to consume increasingly large amounts of memory -- so it won't detect an application that immediately reserves a ton of memory, and it won't detect an application that barely uses any memory and leaks a tiny bit.  It's much more focused on catching the sneaky perpetrators that gradually use up all your memory without you noticing until it's too late.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2014, 06:25 PM »

At this stage, Process Piglet has few options and nothing to tune and adjust.

Just run it and forget it -- it doesn't make any changes to your pc or do anything other than monitor memory use of other applications andl pop up and alert you if it detects a process misbehaving

It's likely that it will merge with and become part of my Process Tamer application later in 2014, as part of a major revamping of that tool.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2014, 06:22 PM »

Process Piglet is a tool that lives down in your system tray and monitors the memory use of running processes.

When it first sees a new application, it spends about 30 seconds observing its average memory use. This establishes a baseline memory use pattern for the application.

After that, Process Piglet will alert you if/when the application starts to consume large amounts of additional memory.

Frequently such behavior indicates a problem with the application, such as a memory leak.

When such an alert is shown you may ignore it -- you will be alerted later if memory usage continues to increase. Or you may ask Process Piglet to forcibly terminate and restart the application.


Web page and download: https://www.donation...ouser/ProcessPiglet/
Watch a video demo: here.
Or on YouTube:

Screenshot, minimized in tray and alerting on bad behavior:

Screenshot, main window listing top memory hogs with quick actions to terminate or restart:

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 - New Apps for the New Year - Welcome Thread

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2014, 05:26 PM »

You have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT (as JAN 1 becomes JAN 2) to submit your official NANY's !

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Living Room / HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF DONATIONCODER - 2014!

« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2013, 11:37 PM »

I want to wish all of you who spend time here at the DonationCoder forum a very happy new year.
It's been an honor and a pleasure to share the time with you.


and



2013 has been a strange year -- in many ways for me personally it has felt like a year of not-quite-getting-things-right, but trying to imagine a better path forward.

or


And what i'd like to say to those of you in the same boat as me.. Let's make 2014 a year of action!

Thank you all for sharing your time with me.
-mouser (jesse), 2013

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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.11.01 - Apr 23, 2009

« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2013, 05:14 PM »

Thank you very much..!

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - epCheck

« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2013, 02:12 PM »

Beautifully done 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Printer network

« Last post by mouser on December 30, 2013, 10:49 PM »

an HP printer hardwired to one of the W7s

Connected how? USB or traditional printer port?

I don't have much experience with such things, but as you say, it should be possible to do what you want using workgroup stuff -- that's how things used to be done in the early days before networked printers.


HOWEVER, my impression is that going the workgroup route or otherwise trying to print from one computer through another, is bound to be frustrating and flakey.


What i would do if i were in your place is EITHER buy a new network-capable printer.  Whether that's a printer that can use wi-fi or one that connects directly to your router via ethernet, same deal.

That way the printer is a first class part of your network that all computers can see.

Actually however, that reminds me that i think if your printer is a USB printer, you can probably buy a router with usb printer support that would also make your printer a first class citizen in your network.  So you might be able to buy a new router instead of a new printer -- choose the one that is oldest/cheapest.

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Dr.Windows / Re: Dr.Windows - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.05.01 - February 27, 2005

« Last post by mouser on December 29, 2013, 06:07 PM »

Ok let me have a look and i'll try to release a new version in the next few days.

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Dr.Windows / Re: Dr.Windows - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.05.01 - February 27, 2005

« Last post by mouser on December 29, 2013, 12:27 PM »

Can you give me a little more information -- when does the error occur? Can you reproduce it reliably? Give me the steps to reproduce it and i'll fix it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: ImgFloat (a tool for Screenshot Captor)

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2013, 01:40 PM »

great 

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: ImgFloat (a tool for Screenshot Captor)

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2013, 12:14 PM »

cmpm: your configuration looks ok to me.
you can use the "post capture pop-up dialog" as you are doing it, and the tool should launch after you choose to save the image.

wraith -- i've noticed that the program seems to keep the image files open after displaying them -- which makes it impossible to delete them in SC.  this happens not just for the current file being shown but for the previously displayed files(!)  better would be if it read the image to display it and then close the file so it could be deleted/moved/etc.

another thing -- the download has no instructions at all in it -- it would be nice if you had a readme that said basically what you've said at top of this post, and include a url link to this post so if people download the zip from somewhere they will have some help.

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PBOL / Re: Progress Bars of Life BETA v2 - With Zenos Alarm

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2013, 12:24 PM »

And on the options tab "Appearance - Bars", in the Dock group box, your Dock mode is set to "Reserve screen space and keep visible always"?

Does restarting it or restarting the other apps help?  Does it make a difference if it's docked on top or bottom?

Are you saying this has always been this way or this is something new?

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PBOL / Re: Progress Bars of Life BETA v2 - With Zenos Alarm

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2013, 11:47 AM »

Since when? i'm not sure how this can happen -- can you show me a screenshot?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Engine Displacement Calculator

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2013, 11:26 AM »

While certainly not something that I have use for, it looks pretty cool.

Can you give us some insight into who would use such a thing and for what purpose?

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Living Room / Re: What are Your Favorite YouTube Channels? Here are Mine for Board Games

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2013, 12:58 AM »

Top 30 Solitaire board games by Ricky Royal:

https://www.youtube....re=player_detailpage
(that's the top 10 -- you can find links from there to #s 30-11).

He does a great job of describing the different games and why he likes them.  Great stuff. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: xbmcsender

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2013, 12:33 AM »

I have now posted a download link.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: 2.213.01 Hotkey mystery

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2013, 11:37 AM »

Strange.. try killing all other processes and see if you can find if one bad actor might be responsible for this.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: URGENT REQUEST: browser meta searching with custom entries.

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2013, 08:58 PM »

Try this new version:

• https://www.donation...AndRunRobotSetup.exe
• https://www.donation...RunRobotPortable.zip

You'll still notice a little delay after the first item is launched, but after that they should all load right away.  That first delay is just an attempt to give a browser time to start from cold if not already running; if this isn't done then you can get multiple instances of the browser starting up unaware of each other.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: URGENT REQUEST: browser meta searching with custom entries.

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2013, 08:42 PM »

ah well then it is farr, and i can fix it!

In fact, now that you mention it i think i remember why i put it in place -- to handle cases where the app, the browser in this case, has to be launched from a cold start, before you want to start feeding it multiple launches.

But let me see if i can't quickly handle that better.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: URGENT REQUEST: browser meta searching with custom entries.

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2013, 08:31 PM »

That's a good question -- i think it's probably Chrome itself that's to blame for this -- that is, if you make a batch file 10 entries for to open chrome and open each url, the result will be the same.

I don't know if there's a better way to tell chrome (or another browsers) to open up a list of urls using a 3rd party tool.  The only way to do it MIGHT be by using a chrome-specific addon for this -- which i'll bet you can find if you look around.

Let me know if you can find a 3rd party tool that can open up multiple tabs in a browser quickly.