The TPU UK Clubhouse

[FreedomEclipse]

Firefox is annoying me, it seems to want to chew up 200-300mb of ram and the plug in container uses up almost 100mb. Not that much really but i only have 4 tabs open and non flash heavy sites loaded, it was was also crashing in Google Earth when i was showing my cousin a route to college it was just freezing it did that before i think its a flash problem.

My ram usage is 2.52gb, ive only got Firefox and Steam minimised to the task bar. Whats going on there? I don't even have an anti virus running in the background. Not that the pc is slow but just wanting to know whats chewing up the ram? Is it as simple as the OS wants the extra ram? Its not like im seeing any extra speed boosts from having it use more up, folders and stuff just pop open in the same speed as when i had 4gb.

you have 8Gb of ram....stop crying,

ram doesnt offer much of a speedboost unless its higher frequency, More ram just means you can multitask more. for instance. If i mount a DVD image on my hard drive and i start installing a game. it will start to hog up my ram. and everything just becomes shit slow when theres only 200-300mb of free ram left.

I usually have more then 10tabs open in firefox anyway.

 

[scaminatrix]

I run Windows 7 on 1GB of RAM and it's lovely. It was really slow with 1GB of 533 stuff, but now I've changed to 800MHz, it's sweet. I've been reading that the "memory scaling" on Windows 7 is brilliant and that's why it works really good with low amounts of RAM. But rarely people have problems when running lots of RAM; mostly in laptops.

Kieran: Lots of people have been saying bad things about the plugin container. Try stopping the service or try a different version of Firefox. I don't have any problems with Firefox crashing or Windows being slow whatsoever.
Specs:

E2160 1.8GHz
1GB DDR2-800
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L
WDCGreen 500GB

Runs perfect on Firefox 4.0.1

 

[MilkyWay]

you have 8Gb of ram....stop crying,

ram doesnt offer much of a speedboost unless its higher frequency, More ram just means you can multitask more. for instance. If i mount a DVD image on my hard drive and i start installing a game. it will start to hog up my ram. and everything just becomes shit slow when theres only 200-300mb of free ram left.

I usually have more then 10tabs open in firefox anyway.

Like i posted im not that upset but id like to have known why it was using up that much ram at idle either way because i was just interested, its using up about 1gb more now compared to before. I thought with Windows using up more ram it would be slightly more snappy or i would get a faster cold boot but nah it didn't really do much in that regard.

As with all AMD systems usually tighter timings are better than raw speeds. This G.Skill is okay but i was a bit annoyed how it dropped in price to £40 pretty quickly after i bought it at £65.

EDIT: Firefox never crashes it freezes and its usually like when im using Google Earth or something Flash or Java related, the plug ins that are installed are Java, Flash, Google Earth, Fox it reader and Silverlight. Im on the newest version of Firefox and i cannot remember what version i was on when it started freezing, its infrequent but enough for me to notice it. I usually have to stop the process and then it asks me if i want to reload my previous tabs.

 

[scaminatrix]

Aah, I don't use silverlight and I tell foxit not to install the plugin when I install the reader. I don't use the google earth plug in either - ther's no point as there's google maps anyway lol the only plugin I have the need for is flash.

My problems were worst when I had the "show all histroy" window open. It went mega slow with that.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

if you want snappy - get an SSD as boot drive

 

[MilkyWay]

Good question is why would i need Silverlight installed? and i thought you needed the Google Earth plug in to do the street view and over head Earth view? BTW I recommend everyone try's Fox It reader its way better than Adobe Reader for PDF files.

An SSD at £1 a gig is still to much for my liking.

If i had my way no one would use Flash or Java but its just to common, HTML 5 is a start.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

An SSD at £1 a gig is still to much for my liking.

you could have picked up a cheap Crucial refurbed SSD they said it was like 70p per gig.

I will always be weary of Crucial though.

 

[NdMk2o1o]

HTML 5 is the future.

I corrected your mistake

It is for the simple fact that it will let us take web way further than we have been able to do previously and enable web apps that interact like native applications all within the comfort of our browser, HTML5 is revolutionary to be honest and does away with the likes of Flash, Silverlight, Java etc whilst giving a lot more richness to web apps, definately exciting stuff now and will be even more so in 1-2 years time, FU apple with your zero flash support you bastards

 

[MightyMission]

I love the idea of SSD's but not the price.
cable management becomes so much easier when you can velcro an SSD round the side of the case that never gets opened.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well I might be jumping onto a 120Gb 6Gbs SSD later this week or the week after. gonna try out my current 90Gb in my DM1, but if that doesnt work due to HPs bios not wanting to recognise it then i will sell it or keep it just for games. my steam folder alone is around 55Gbs, but i'll probably just load BC2 and a few MMOs on it as well as BF3 when it comes out

 

[FreedomEclipse]

my external optical drive for my DM1 still aint come through the post

 

[Bo$$]

my external optical drive for my DM1 still aint come through the post

still waiting for my entire laptop too

 

[Tatty_Two]

I am waiting for:

Cooler for my 6970 (Prolimatech MK-13)
2 x SSD 120gig (OCZ Vertex 2E)
6GB kit of 2400mhz memory
6 120mm fans

Just received my youngest daughters £37.50 Microsoft office 2010 professional plus (2 licenses available, one for Lappy, one for desktop )

 

[kurosagi01]

I don't even know if i should be honored or pleased. My mum gave me my dad super old but brand new wallet. Made by Dior,it looks nice but uh..it looks abit girly or it be okay for gays.
Honestly don't know right now.

Anyways the waiting game sucks i always have to wait at least until half 12 for a package,if its from Scan it be in afternoon delivery all the time.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I am waiting for:

Cooler for my 6970 (Prolimatech MK-13)
2 x SSD 120gig (OCZ Vertex 2E)
6GB kit of 2400mhz memory
6 120mm fans

Just received my youngest daughters £37.50 Microsoft office 2010 professional plus (2 licenses available, one for Lappy, one for desktop )

Hey tatty, can i just remind you it was my birthday last saturday (the previous saturday, not the one just gone)

 

[Tatty_Two]

Hey tatty, can i just remind you it was my birthday last saturday (the previous saturday, not the one just gone)

Damn..... too late your Birthdays gone , and I just ordered a Colour Laserjet too

 

[FreedomEclipse]

belated gifts are still welcome

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Loving the new avatar Tatty, much better than the previous sets. Jealous of your new purchases mind.

:shadedshu

 

[FreedomEclipse]

now that i think about it....Why buy Vertex 2's???

Sure Vertex 3's would have been a better idea as you can keep it when you switch to a mobo that supports Sata III

 

[Tatty_Two]

now that i think about it....Why buy Vertex 2's???

Sure Vertex 3's would have been a better idea as you can keep it when you switch to a mobo that supports Sata III

because ultimatly, in tests, 9 out of 10 cats say that the V2's perform better on SATA2 than V3's on SATA 2 (just) and my wallet does not have to worry too much about "futureproof"

 

[Bo$$]

AHH MAH package aint here yet?! WTF is wrong with the world i paid £15 for the delivery?!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

my wallet does not have to worry too much about "futureproof"

Spoken like a boss!!

though.... Vertex3@550MB/s>Vertex2@285MB/s

Ive seen 120Gb Vertex3's for the about the same price as Vertex 2's so thats why i was asking.

I know you got tonnes of moneh so theres no need to troll the middle class folk like me who have hardly any.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Not just that but the V3's and the Agility 3's have the newer and problematic Sandforce controller.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

AHH MAH package aint here yet?! WTF is wrong with the world i paid £15 for the delivery?!

Fingers crossed it aint HDNL thats deliverin your laptop. otherwise your gonna have some trouble.

 

[Tatty_Two]

ohhhh and I am paying £129 each fior the V2's, the V3's are a fair bit more than that.