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While i am running friends reunited on opera i have checked task manager and on performance my cpu usage shoots up to anything between 95 and 100% and on the proccesss tab it uses up to 150,000 k can anyone tell me why as this it seems is extremly high but when i come of the said web page everything drops back to normal cpu is from 2 to 47% and memory is 42,656.......... Thanks......

 

Any process that is working without needing to wait for things (such as disk access or internet access) will show a usage of nearly 100% if nothing else is going on. This is to be expected!

And if it needs 150MB working memory for something and that is available it will take it!

Harry.

 

Why do you think this is a problem? If you ask a machine to do a job I'd expect it to do it, not sleep half the time!

It seems to be quite common that people expect that memory and CPU to be low all the time. This will only happen if either the machine isn't doing anything, or it is waiting for data via a 'slow' channel.

Harry.

 

Well just tried it on IE and the cpu usage fluctuates between 2% and 100% and the memory usage is 60% on opera it is certainly a lot higher

 

The system idle thread shouldn't be thrasing CPU usage like that. Sounds like something is happening in Opera whereby it's waitng for an event to either break it out of a wait or a loop.

 

Hm - we read the original slightly differently then!

Indeed - it should drop after opening and displaying the site, unless there are a lot of animations on the page.

Harry.