holy shite! memory usage!

[Lord Evermore]

Careful. 5000 posts. That page when all topics are displayed in enhanced graphics mode, is a total of 35MB in size.

Mozilla used 346MB of memory to render it.

Mozilla inefficiency, or way too much extraneous code? Too many loadings of all the icons and graphics rather than loading once and being displayed multiple times?

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
Careful. 5000 posts. That page when all topics are displayed in enhanced graphics mode, is a total of 35MB in size.

Mozilla used 346MB of memory to render it.

Mozilla inefficiency, or way too much extraneous code? Too many loadings of all the icons and graphics rather than loading once and being displayed multiple times?

5000 posts? That's another anandtech page

 

[Scootin159]

I don't think that link goes where you want

 

[Anubis]

wrong link i beleive

you wanted this one i beleive

and Opera7 loads it for me and my mem usage is at like 25megs

 

[Deeko]

heh, wrong thread....

 

[Spikey217]

I believe he means Text

 

[Scootin159]

still only puts 100 posts on the front page....how are you guys viewing the whole thing?

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: Scootin159
still only puts 100 posts on the front page....how are you guys viewing the whole thing?

Go to customer and look for:

How many messages do you want listed when you enter a thread?

Choose the very first option in the drop down, "Unlimited".

 

[wfbberzerker]

can you guess when i closed the thread?

 

[Scootin159]

Originally posted by: aves2k

Originally posted by: Scootin159
still only puts 100 posts on the front page....how are you guys viewing the whole thing?

Go to customer and look for:

How many messages do you want listed when you enter a thread?

Choose the very first option in the drop down, "Unlimited".

lol, must've missed that one...thanks.

 

[Scootin159]

319k in Crazy Browser over IE6

 

[Spikey217]

Once I dipped into ~350MB, I cut it off.

 

[thawolfman]

Holy

Sh!t!

:Q

 

[Spikey217]

Originally posted by: thawolfman
Holy

Sh!t!

:Q

Can you link me to that xp skin?

 

[thawolfman]

It's a visual style of the Coughdrop theme - Aikon XP.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Fixed the link, I'm a moron.

Both I and Aves2k have verified that it's doing this. In both IE and Mozilla, so it's not a mozilla specific issue. It looks like the browsers are loading a new copy of every single image into memory every single time that it shows up on the page, even if it's already loaded and being displayed elsewhere on the same page. I don't know if that's by design (which would be really stupid) or due to the code used to display the page.

Even if you disable images in either browser, they both reach over 300MB memory usage. The browsers are obviously still loading images even when you tell it not to display them (way to save bandwidth and speed page loading by disabling images).

To make it do this, you DO have to be running in the enhanced graphics mode, and have your preferences set to display all posts on a single page.

What's even better is how well that thread shows IE's horrible underlying coding, even though overall it's fast and looks good. When I let the page load in IE6, then close the window, it takes a good minute to two minutes for IE to finish unloading from memory and doing whatever cache and history stuff it needs to do, during which is uses 100% of the CPU time and causes other activities on the system to lag. When I close Mozilla with the thread open, it closes instantly and the process is gone.

 

[her209]

The link is still not fixed.

 

[Spikey217]

Originally posted by: thawolfman
It's a visual style of the Coughdrop theme - Aikon XP.

It looked a tad familiar. I'll look through themexp.org again.

 

[BatmanNate]

301mb in Opera 7.01.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
301mb in Opera 7.01.

Originally posted by: TheEvil1
Opera7 loads it for me and my mem usage is at like 25megs

How can this be? Unless TheEvil1 doesn't have it set to show all posts on one page.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Well we tested, and even in standard mode, which has like a third of the images per post (mostly spacing single pixel gifs so only very small byte sizes) both browsers take nearly 200MB of memory to load the thread.

Maybe this is a "forum issue" but when I first posted it, I was just thinking it was funny. Besides, I expect the usual blame on the browsers.