Feedback Front Page taking a lot of CPU time

[Brian]

I posted this observation before, in the suggestions thread that seems to be deleted.

On my XP machine, the forum Front page is very slow- running task manager shows IExplorer pegging 98% of the CPU. Navigate away to the "forums", or a thread- immediate drop in CPU usage. I'm not sure what is causing the drain on resources. On a Win7 machine laptop at home, sometimes the Front page also seems to draw a lot of CPU power, more than other sites. Mu-43.com does not seem to place as much of a demand on the CPU.

If other potential users have this issue, they may give up and go somewhere else.

anyone else notice this?

 

[Amin]

I'm not seeing that on my home PCs (Windows 7) or Macs using any of my browsers. However, I have noticed at work that on XP running IE6 that the front page loads slowly and makes a few clicking noises while loading. I don't know what causes this. If anyone has a suggestion for fixing it, I'm all ears.

 

[Crsnydertx]

Win 7 laptop here; switch to Front Page tops out at 11% CPU usage and is very quick. And that's on a wireless G connection. Firefox browser.

Oh, and it's very fast on iPad as well.

 

[Brian]

At work- I upgraded to the last Internet Explorer available for XP. Running a direct Ethernet 100MBPS to the backbone. That did not fix the problem.

 

[Crsnydertx]

Can firewall affect these parameters?

 

[Brian]

It does not occur on mu-43.com, or other sites such as getdi and the Leica forum. There are sites that are not allowed- but that takes very little CPU time!

The ads on the left of the screen take a long time to load up. I wonder if the Site is running queries on the local machine for some sort of customization. Or the server for the ad itself is slow.

 

[Julien]

On SC front page with a Windows 7 laptop using either Internet Explorer 9 or Firefox 12 I get a normal behaviour on my computer.

 

[Isoterica]

Every once in a while when I hit my SC bookmark the site takes a while to load. Once it is loaded, surfing it is fine. I'm using Chrome on Win7. This is a brand new i5 with upgraded graphics card. Assumed it was on the server side, particularly when I test other sites and they pull right up. Fwiw I don't recall it doing that about a month or so ago when I was on my older computer which is why I did actually test and see if it was my connection/cpu. So I think it is fairly recent like the last few weeks. As to what does it, I don't know, it did make me get up a couple times and tend to my housework instead though LOL. But I do come back. If it happens again I will study it more closely.