On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 12:03:57 PM UTC-4, Terry Coombs wrote:
trader_4 wrote:
On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 11:53:50 AM UTC-4, notbob wrote:
On 2016-08-19, HerHusband wrote:

I'm leaving the task manager open (minimized) and watching the cpu
usage, I frequently see it running over 70%, and maxed out pretty
often.

70% Sheesh, that doesn't sound right.

But, it is. I often get both my CPU and RAM maxxed out by X Windows
and my browsers. 98%-100% is not unusual. This on an old P4 w/ .5G
RAM. The increased graphics resolution is responsible fer most of
it. That and jes old specs fer a 2002 Vaio that was originally made
fer XP.

Usta be this sucker was fast. Now, with increased graphics
resolution and all those client-side scripts (I've seen 40!), even
with Linux, gotta getta new box.

nb

With only .5 GB of RAM, no wonder. Terry has 8GB of RAM and with that
CPU and memory, the browser load on the CPU should be negligible.

No , I have 3 Gb of RAM on this machine .
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Snag

K, somehow I thought you had 8. 3GB seems like an odd amount, but I guess
it's possible. If you have 3, what I said still applies. The other poster
was saying his response time sucks, but he has only .5GB of RAM, you have
6X that.

Whatever is going on, seems most of us agree you're terrible performance
is from something software related, or possible internet connection?

Here's some more interesting news:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonke.../#c68e727c27ce

Looks like going forward Win 7 users get a choice of taking the entire
update that is offered from MSFT or nothing. You can't pick and choose
which updates you want like you could before.