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Teddys Girl

Teddys Girl Report 15 Jan 2010 16:18

Had a real slow running computer this morning. OH said so many people on it.

BrianW

BrianW Report 15 Jan 2010 15:36

The CPU is Pentium 4 2.60Ghz.
512MB Ram. (Which I appreciate is low)
XP Professional 2002 SP 3.

GR seems to be the only site that uses all the CPU, it's over 90% !

When I shut down the GR window it drops back to under 10%.

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

Shaun

Shaun Report 15 Jan 2010 14:50

Brian, I don't know what web browser you are using or what CPU you have but on my system, with Internet Explorer 8 and a 3.06Ghz P4 running Windows XP SP3 with 2 Gb memory, I am unable to detect the low level of CPU useage in Task manager whilst typing this message. When opening the GR Home page or particularly the Family Tree page then CPU useage very briefly goes up to 30 per cent.

Shaun

BrianW

BrianW Report 15 Jan 2010 14:25

I am using GR.com, IE7 and Windows XP

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 15 Jan 2010 13:56

Dunno about GR, Brian,
but My AOL at times hogs the lott!!
and if Mcafee is doing a scan at the same time I might as well go on holiday!!!

dont suppose it makes any difference but Iam using the GR .ZA

site

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

BrianW

BrianW Report 15 Jan 2010 13:37

The computer was running slow so I opened up Windows Task manager to find that a high CPU usage was showing.

I closed the Genes Reunited window and it dropped to practically nothing.

I opened up GR again and it shot up.

Anyone else getting the same symptoms?

Is there something on this site which is chewing up loads of CPU?

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)